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TacoRoot

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• CVE numbers:
• Coordinated disclosure?: false
• Categories: permissions
• Details: HTC recovery log on some devices is world writable and so can be deleted and symlinked to /data/local.prop to allow root on reboot, this is a appears to be a unstable exploit and requires the user to reboot into recovery mode [gh-cunninglogic-tacoroot][archived]
• Discovered by: Justin Case (jcase) and Dan Rosenberg [gh-cunninglogic-tacoroot-sh][archived] on: 2012-01-01 [gh-cunninglogic-tacoroot-fc]
• Reported on: 2011-12-29 [rootzwiki-tacoroot][archived]
• Fixed on: Unknown
• Fix released on: Unknown
• Affected versions: regex:
• Affected devices:
• Affected manufacturers: HTC [rootzwiki-tacoroot][archived]
• Fixed versions:
• Submission: by: Daniel R. Thomas, on: 2014-07-21; by: Thomas Coudray, on: 2014-03-07