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windows push notifications
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Windows push notifications are a platform component that delivers alerts for email, calendar, app messages, security prompts, and system updates. Troubleshooting guides cover common fixes when notifications stop appearing, such as checking Do Not Disturb or Focus assist settings, app permissions, and notification services. Recent security advisories highlight elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in the Windows Push Notifications Apps component, including CVE-2025-50155, CVE-2025-53726, CVE-2025-53725, and CVE-2025-53724, which involve type confusion bugs that allow authorized local users to escalate privileges to SYSTEM. Microsoft has released patches in cumulative updates, and administrators are urged to apply them promptly.
Fix Windows 10/11 Notifications Not Showing: Do Not Disturb, App Permissions, and Services
Difficulty: Beginner | Time Required: 10 minutes
Windows notifications are useful for email alerts, calendar reminders, app messages, security prompts, and system updates. If notifications suddenly stop...
Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has cataloged CVE-2025-50155 as an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows Push Notifications Apps component described as “Access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’).” The issue allows an authorized local attacker —...
Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-53726 warns that a type‑confusion bug in the Windows Push Notifications stack can allow an authorized local user to elevate privileges to SYSTEM, and administrators must treat the advisory as a high‑priority patching item while hardening detection and...
A newly reported elevation‑of‑privilege issue tied to Windows push/notification components has reignited concern about memory‑safety defects in user‑facing Windows subsystems — however, the precise CVE identifier you provided (CVE‑2025‑53725) could not be independently verified in public vendor...
Microsoft’s security advisory identifies CVE-2025-53724 as an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Push Notifications Apps component that stems from an access of resource using incompatible type (type confusion); when triggered by a locally authorized user, the bug can be abused...