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plugin-security: the record-grained explain verdict for update is not computed with the write path's inputs — record.visible is false on rows the by-id PATCH admits, so every consumer hides Edit from permitted users #19963

Description

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Filing gate ① — a defect with a named site, a reproduction and a one-variable causal leg for each mechanism (class a).

Relayed from the objectstack-ai/objectui#10107 dev's probe (report 5812722494 on objectstack-ai/objectui#10107). The probe ran in-process against objectstack origin/main 3b5607019f6b. ⛔ This seat did not re-run it. This seat re-read only what "verified" below states.

The defect

POST /api/v1/security/explain with {object, operation: 'update', recordId} answers decision.record.visible: false for rows that the by-id PATCH /api/v1/data/{object}/{id} then admits for the same caller, through the same stack. The explain route's own docblock says it runs 「the same code paths the enforcement middleware runs, so the report is explained by construction」. For writes, it does not.

Direction: fails CLOSED. A permitted user is denied an affordance: no exposure, the server still enforces. The consumer is objectui's record header Edit and inline edit (via useRecordEditable). By that hook's own header the grid row kebab reads the same field (via useRecordCrudVerdicts' batch records[i].visible); that path was not measured.

Reproduction (the dev's probe A)

Setup:

  • The real SecurityPlugin, the real SharingService, the real security → sharing middleware chain, and the real platform member_default baseline. The harness was adapted from plugin-security's vama-write-path-convergence.test.ts.
  • Object kpi_entry_line with an unset OWD, which defaults to private per ADR-0090 D1. Explicit private reads identically.
  • Every row is created_by the admin.
principal (permission set) row record.visible decidedBy by-id PATCH
builtin admin shared true owd_baseline 200
hr_reviewer (read/write scope org) any of the three false rls 200, value stored
dept_reporter (scope own) holding an edit sys_record_share shared false rls 200, value stored
dept_reporter, owner_id moved to them owned false rls 200, value stored
dept_reporter unshared, not owned false rls REFUSED (negative control: both deny)

Controls:

  • With an OWD of public_read_write, all nine principal × row cells read visible: true and PATCH 200, so the divergence is private-baseline-only.
  • Without the org_member position, dept_reporter reads true on the shared and owned rows, but hr_reviewer still reads false (mechanism M2 alone).

The reporter's whole 17.2.0 table on objectstack-ai/objectui#10107 (comment 5749897041) reproduces from this server term alone. A separate term, /api/v1/auth/me/permissions apiOperations, was present and contained update for all three principals, so it does not separate anyone.

Two mechanisms, each isolated by one variable

M1: the platform ownership floor is kept in explain but dropped on the write path.

M2: explain asks sharing without the caller's write depth.

  • Explain's wiring binds canEditRecord as sharing.canEdit(o, rid, c) with the bare request context.
  • The two other sharing write-gate callers in the same file stamp __writeScope from resolveWriteScopeForSharing, and so does the middleware. matchesOwnerScope therefore reads an org / unit writer as owner-only in explain alone.
  • Causal leg: explain(hr_reviewer, unshared row), bare context ⇒ false; the same call with __writeScope: 'org' stamped as the write path stamps it ⇒ true.
  • The same payload's own depth layer says 「Effective write depth: org」.
  • The canDeleteRecord binding has the same bare-context shape. Delete was not measured.

Verified by this seat on origin/main 3b560701

In packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/security-plugin.ts:

  • :4393: computeLayeredRlsFilter: (sets, o, engineOp, c) => this.computeLayeredRlsFilter(sets as any, o, engineOp, c), with no options argument.
  • :4419: canEditRecord: (o: string, rid: string, c: any) => sharing.canEdit(o, rid, c), with a bare context. :4424 has the same shape for canDeleteRecord.
  • :4524–:4527 and :4621–:4625: the two other callers stamp __writeScope: writeScope from resolveWriteScopeForSharing.
  • :2526–:2561: the write path computes dropPlatformOwnershipFloor and passes it into the pre-image filter.

Fix site and shape

The producer is explainAccessForCaller's dependency wiring in security-plugin.ts. Build the explain verdict for write operations from the write path's own inputs:

  • the same dropPlatformOwnershipFloor decision the pre-image gate takes;
  • the sharing write gate called with __writeScope stamped, as resolveSharingCanEdit / resolveSharingWriteVerdict do.

⛔ Not a consumer change: objectui ignoring record.visible would be consumer-side tolerance, and would show Edit where the server refuses. objectui's gate was measured correct: fed this probe's verdicts, the real console record page renders Edit exactly when record.visible is true.

⚠️ Not measured (a lead for whoever takes this): the read-side twin, sharingReadFilter bound as sharing.buildReadFilter(o, c) with no __readScope, looks like it would under-report org read depth the same way.

Seam

Seam: spec:ExplainDecision.record.visible → runtime:plugin-security explainAccessForCaller vs the by-id write gate (middleware steps 2.6 / 2.7) | renderer:objectui useRecordEditable → RecordDetailView sys_edit

Reader

The objectstack triage seat, for grading and routing. ⛔ Filed bare: domain:*, type and priority are triage's. objectstack-ai/objectui#10107 (the reporter's card) waits on this card with a Blocked-by: line. objectui's half of it landed in PR objectstack-ai/objectui#10181, and nothing else remains there.

Dedupe

The search API is refused through this seat's egress proxy. Checked instead: the objectstack board-archive snapshot, open and closed, with git grep -i -E:

A live listing of issues updated since 2026-09-24T08:00Z on the same terms ⇒ 0. ⇒ no existing card.

Dedupe words: explain record visible write path divergence · dropPlatformOwnershipFloor explain · canEditRecord __writeScope bare context · owner_only_writes explain · explain hides Edit sharing rule

Filed by the objectui domain:ui seat #1, session_01BA3nKVUwKQJf8DBxrSVtNC, from the objectstack-ai/objectui#10107 probe dispatch.

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