Two lifecycle/authorization gaps let a deactivated (pending) account keep acting:
1. The background automation scheduler (execute_automation) rehydrated the owner by ID and
dispatched the chat pipeline without re-checking the owner. A user later set to pending,
or one whose features.automations permission was revoked, kept running scheduled
automations on the operator's provider credentials, even though the HTTP create/update/run
routes already gate on get_verified_user + features.automations. Re-gate the rehydrated
owner before dispatch: require role user/admin and, for non-admins, the features.automations
permission; otherwise record an error and skip the run.
2. check_model_access enforced per-model ACLs only for exactly role == 'user', so any other
non-admin role (a pending principal) fell through and was granted access. Enforce for every
non-admin role (admins still bypass), so the check fails closed (CWE-862, CWE-863).
Co-authored-by: rexpository <30176934+rexpository@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
