PS5 Relapse jailbreak moves into the YouTube app, as a datamine says GTA VI will need firmware 14.10

A Y2JB port of the Relapse exploit and a 1.0 autoloader released on 9 October make the jailbreak start without the browser, while firmware 14.10 is reported to be required by Grand Theft Auto VI's...

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Relapse, the PS5 jailbreak published on 29 September for system software 7.00 to 13.60, no longer needs the console's web browser. A developer called edisnord has ported it to Y2JB, the modified YouTube app that the PS5 scene already uses to run payloads, and on 9 October the PS5 Y2JB Autoloader reached version 1.0 with Relapse built in. On the other side, Sony shipped two system updates in a fortnight, and a datamine reported by ARY News says Grand Theft Auto VI will need the newer one.

From the browser to YouTube

The original Relapse chains a WebKit browser exploit with a kernel bug, an aio_multi_wait use-after-free, and credits Sonic_Iso for the kernel exploit and Jordy for the WebKit exploit and kernel bug. Its README warns that the browser stage may need several attempts and that the kernel stage "may hang or panic the console".

The Y2JB port, released on 1 October, keeps the kernel stage and offset tables "used verbatim" and drops the browser. Its README says the jailbreak takes about three seconds and ends with an ELF loader listening on the network. It was tested on firmware 12.60 only, and says plainly that 7.00 to 13.60 is "the range the offset tables cover, not a range that has been tested". On a 7.61 console, closing the app still panicked the kernel in an earlier build, and three kernel settings stay modified until the next reboot.

The autoloader, by itsPLK, runs the exploit and then a list of payloads automatically when the YouTube app starts. Version 1.0 makes Relapse the preferred exploit on firmware 8.00 to 13.60, except 9.05 and 11.40, whenever the console has an active Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection, and on firmware 10.01 and below it falls back to the older Lapse exploit when no network connection is found, or on 9.05. It replaces the P2JB exploit, which has been removed. Earlier test builds warned that consoles on 7.00 to 10.01 were expected to kernel panic on some firmware when the app closed.

Firmware 14.10 and GTA VI

None of this works on current firmware. ARY News reports that firmware 14.00, released on 16 September, was the first to disrupt the exploit, and that 14.10 followed on 1 October with further security fixes. Sony did not say the update was aimed at any particular exploit.

ARY News cites the PlayStation Game Size account on X, which says its datamine shows GTA VI's launch build requires firmware 14.10. The game is due on 19 November. Neither Sony nor Rockstar has confirmed a link between the update and the game, and the requirement comes from a datamine rather than an announcement.

The risks are the usual ones. The exploit's own authors warn of hangs and kernel panics, the projects are labelled for research on hardware you own, and running unsigned code on a console that signs in to PlayStation Network carries the risk of a ban.

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Image: itsPLK / PS5 Y2JB Autoloader

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