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PlayStation hackers ZNullPtr and TheFloW maintain busy on the PS4/PS5 scene, even when among the work they do may nonetheless stay underneath wraps. Recently, each hackers have (independently) reported new vulnerabilities to Sony relating to their gaming consoles, by way of their HackerOne bug bounty program.
Recently reported vulnerabilities are almost definitely not related to finish customers of the hacking scene
It just isn’t clear on HackerOne itself if the problems are related for PS4 and/or PS5 hacking, however to be completely trustworthy, they’re almost definitely not: TheFloWâs vulnerability granted him a $500 bounty, which is superior pocket cash, donât get me mistaken, however signifies a âlowâ affect bug on both the PS4 or PS5. That is actually not a kernel exploit, and presumably not even one thing helpful for console hacks. It may very well be a minor bug that the hacker discovered as a facet impact of on the lookout for deeper vulnerabilities.
As far because the report from ZNullPtr is worried, this one has been marked as closed yesterday. Just from that, it’s not possible to see how important the bug is. We can see that some vital bugs reported e.g. by CTurt (and ZNullPtr himself) have additionally been marked as âclosedâ previously, however with no disclosure concerned (at the very least not by the âofficialâ HackerOne channel). It might boil all the way down to the person hackers selecting to not disclose the reward quantity, another HackerOne rule, or just the bug being closed as ânot in scopeâ.
In this case nevertheless, ZNullPtr has taken to discord to substantiate that the payout was $500, and the bug âdoesnât comprise something helpful to finish customersâ. He additionally didnât know why the reward quantity wasnât displayed for his entry on HackerOne.
Bummer.
