Breakthrough PS5 jailbreak that sent Star Wars: Racer Revenge prices skyrocketing might not work after all

At the end of 2025, a breakthrough exploit was revealed that seemed poised to make PS5 jailbreaks on recent firmware feasible. The vulnerability relied on the PS4 edition of Star Wars: Racer Revenge, and the news sent prices for that game skyrocketing on the secondhand market – but now, weeks later, it’s starting to seem like the jailbreak might not work after all.

The exploit functions in two parts. First, the in-game vulnerability in Racer Revenge is used to load a piece of software called Luac0re – a derivative of a previous exploit tool called mast1c0re – which then opens up the console to deeper kernel-level modifications. This is the part that was demonstrated a few weeks ago, and that still works.