Crash when showing a toast from non-admin account in elevated context

mohabouje / WinToast

WinToast is a lightly library written in C++ which brings a complete integration of the modern toast notifications of Windows 8 & Windows 10. Toast notifications allows your app to inform the users about relevant information and timely events that they should see and take action upon inside your app, such as a new instant message, a new friend request, breaking news, or a calendar event.

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Crash when showing a toast from non-admin account in elevated context #54

Open yuyoyuppe opened 4 years ago

yuyoyuppe commented 4 years ago

Repro steps:

compile example
log in as non-admin user
launched elevated cmd shell
WinToast Console Example.exe" --text
observe the crash

We've had a similar issue and it could be solved by initializing COM security with L"(A;;0x7;;;IU)".

mohabouje commented 1 year ago

To keep things simple, the most effective way is to provide a set of helper functions to configure the COM security if required. I will utilize the files that you have linked and introduce this feature in version 1.4.0.

I am keeping this open for now.

See also https://github.com/mohabouje/WinToast/issues/86 for more information.