fix: User update runs checks against the target account before authorization (GHSA-p49q-9w65-f9p7)

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Issue

User update runs checks against the target account before authorization (GHSA-p49q-9w65-f9p7)

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Walkthrough

_User updates now receive an authorization check before auth-data validation. Password-policy username and history lookups use the requested target object and return OBJECT_NOT_FOUND when the target lookup does not return exactly one user. Regression tests cover authorization outcomes, retargeting, and policy enforcement.

Changes

User update authorization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add the early authorization gate src/RestWrite.js, spec/vulnerabilities.spec.js	RestWrite.execute calls authorizeUserUpdate after session handling and before auth-data validation. The method skips privileged writes, rejects unauthenticated updates and body objectId mismatches, and checks write access for the query target. Tests cover authorization outcomes, retargeting, and owner updates.
Target password-policy lookups src/RestWrite.js, spec/vulnerabilities.spec.js	Username and password-history lookups use query.objectId. Lookups that do not return exactly one user produce OBJECT_NOT_FOUND. Tests cover policy enforcement for owners, privileged keys, ACL-authorized writers, and role-authorized writers.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title starts with the required "fix:" prefix and identifies the security advisory addressed by the changes.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 2…
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Security Check	✅ Passed	The changed code adds an early authorization check for _User updates before password-policy, uniqueness, and auth-data checks. It uses query.objectId, rejects mismatched body objectId values for…
Engage In Review Feedback	✅ Passed	The Major feedback thread is marked resolved, and its recorded reply says it was addressed in commit 08a5e42. That commit is an ancestor of the reviewed PR head. The diff adds authorizeUserUpdate() …

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/RestWrite.js:
- Line 825: Update the _User update flow so target write authorization is
checked for every non-master update before _validateEmail performs its
uniqueness lookup, regardless of whether passwordPolicy is configured. Keep
password-policy-specific validation conditional on passwordPolicy.

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