Researcher Discloses "Unpatchable" Nintendo Switch Exploit

[tarekma7]

A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit affecting the Nvidia Tegra line of embedded processors that come with Nintendo Switch devices.

Codenamed "Fusée Gelée," the PoC is a cold-boot hack that lets a device owner to bypass device-lockdown and run custom code on the Switch.

This exploit opens the door for device owners to run custom games or export data saved on the device, currently forbidden on standard Nintendo Switch handsets.

Fusée Gelée is unpatchable
At the technical level, Fusée Gelée is nothing more than a trivial buffer overflow vulnerability. The problem is its location in the Switch's bootROM component —found inside the Nvidia Tegra chipset— that controls the device's boot-up routine.

This component is locked down at the hardware level after leaving the Nintendo factories, meaning they can't be updated via a firmware patch.

This makes Fusée Gelée unpatchable, and it's hard to believe Nintendo will recall millions of gaming consoles just to fix a jailbreak.

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