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Switcheroo

Exploiting CVE-2016-4657 to JailBreak the Nintendo Switch

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Switcheroo

Nintendo Switch JailBreak PoC

This is a proof-of-concept of exploiting the CVE-2016-4657 vulnerability to allow for future jail-breaking of the Nintendo Switch console. Please beware that this is not a complete jailbreak, and the code shared here is for academic purpose only!

We discourage any usage of the code and/or the attached article for malicious activity.

Developers

Idan A. (@iDaN5x)
Avraam I. (@avraaif)
Netanel O.

Special Thanks

Mrs. Alona K. (M.Sc) for guidance and support.
@LiveOverflow for providing educational information.

How

Please refer to the article we published for information about the technics used by this software.
The article is available here, or as a file in both Word & PDF formats.

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On the demo browser

We wrote for demonstration purposes; this (very) minimal browser can only run on Debian Linux distributions. Just download the latest version from the release page & run the browser to test the exploit for your enjoyment.

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