“If you had an elevated commandline running in an unelevated window, an untrusted bad actor could execute an elevation-of-privilege attack by driving the unelevated windows that’s running the elevated commandline.”Īnd that has also led to conversations on developing a Unix-style sudo command for Windows to a dead-end. Mike Griese, a software engineer at Microsoft working on the Windows Terminal and the Windows command line experience, says that because of the way Windows is architected: So, elevating privileges in Windows Terminal tabs isn’t on Microsoft’s roadmap. But Microsoft has determined there is a risk, albeit small, that hackers could weaponize elevated tabs to compromise Windows. Users have called for Microsoft to allow tabs in Windows Terminal to optionally run with elevated privileges. But because of the way Windows Terminal is developed and packaged, there are some challenges when it comes to elevating privileges.

Windows Terminal is delivered by Microsoft as a packaged app through the Microsoft Store and on GitHub in MSIX format.

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