Existing Resources

There are a few existing resources for rooting Honda headunits, which may or may not be applicable to 10th gen Honda Civics, but are currently unexplored:

• Rooting 2016 Honda Pilot, XDA: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-how-to-gain-root-shell-on-2016-honda-pilot-and-now-install-apps.3487644/
• Rooting 2016 Honda Pilot, GitHub: https://github.com/jersacct/2016PilotOneClick
• DirtyCow exploit: https://github.com/timwr/CVE-2016-5195

A popular tool is this paid service: http://www.autohack.org/vehicles/. It appears to use a WebKit exploit and likely an exploit for Android 4.2.2 to achieve root. One of my motivations for starting this project is that I want to have an open source alternative to proprietary tools like this.