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service-datasource: the admin routes supply no tenancyPosture to resolveAuthzContext — an ex-member's org-stamped API key is admitted #15350

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Censused under #15256 (maintainer ruling 2026-09-04, item 5). That card repaired the REST single-kernel seam; this is the same hole through another door.

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packages/services/service-datasource/src/admin-routes.ts:387

const authz = await resolveAuthzContext({ ql, headers, getSession });

Real request headers on the datasource ADMIN routes, so x-api-key is accepted. No posture, so an ex-member's stamped key authenticates and the route then gates on authz.systemPermissions.

Severity note, honestly: this family gates on system capabilities rather than on org-scoped rows, so the immediate consequence is an admitted principal rather than a cross-organization row read. That makes it less severe than #15256's data door — it does not make the admission correct.

The mechanism, unchanged from #15256

resolveAuthzContext gates BOTH posture-conditional API-key refusals on a tenancyPosture its caller supplies:

  • organization_requiredpackages/core/src/security/api-key.ts, if (!tenantId && tenancyPosture)
  • organization_membership_endedpackages/core/src/security/resolve-authz-context.ts, if (keyPrincipal?.tenantId && input.tenancyPosture)

No posture supplied means neither guard runs. The key's tenantId is sys_api_key.active_organization_id copied verbatim — the caller's own stored claim, never vetted against current membership. So under a wall-enforcing posture (isolated), an API key stamped with an organization its owner has left is admitted, carrying that organization as its tenant.

The census this came from

Of the eight non-test resolveAuthzContext callers on main, exactly two supply a posture:

The other six do not. This issue is one of them; the ruling directed one issue per site.

Why #15256's PR did not fix it inline

Ruling item 5 says fix in that PR if it is one line per site. It is not. A correct derivation has to carry decision-1-option-A's classification (#13906): a tenancy service that was never registered is branded and resolves quietly to "no posture", while one that was registered and FAILED to build must raise AuthzStoreUnavailableError (503). A naive try { ... } catch { undefined } at this seam re-introduces precisely the permissive-on-failure defect #13906 was filed to repair — a failure reading as "this check does not apply".

Refs: #15256 (the ruling and the repaired REST seam) · #15163 (the framework measurement) · #13906 (decision 1 option A) · ADR-0105 D2/D3 · ADR-0123 D2.

Blocked-by: #15256

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