CVE-2026-77425: Unleash: A project member can reorder activation strategies belonging to any other project / environment (cross-project integrity write), bypassing project RBAC and the audit log

Unleash scopes write permissions per project and per environment: a user with the UPDATE_FEATURE_STRATEGY permission on project A is supposed to be able to mutate activation strategies only within project A. The endpoint POST /api/admin/projects/:projectId/features/:featureName/environments/:environment/strategies/set-sort-order violates this. The RBAC middleware authorizes the request against the :projectId taken from the URL, but the handler then writes the strategy IDs supplied in the request body directly to the database by primary key, without ever verifying that those strategy IDs actually belong to the URL’s project / feature / environment. A low-privilege member of any one project can therefore reorder the activation strategies of features in any other project and environment — including projects they have no role on at all — by putting their own project in the URL (to satisfy RBAC) and the victim project’s strategy IDs in the body.

The sibling write paths in the same service (updateStrategy, patchStrategy, deleteStrategy) all call validateUpdatedProperties(), which rejects a strategy whose stored projectId/featureName does not match the URL context. The set-sort-order handler is the one sibling that omits this check — an asymmetric, incomplete enforcement. Activation-strategy ordering is security-relevant: the first matching strategy determines a flag’s rollout/variant outcome, so an attacker can flip which strategy “wins” for another team’s feature flag in production. As a secondary effect, the operation that mutates the victim’s strategies is recorded (if at all) under the attacker’s project/feature context, so the tampering does not appear in the victim project’s audit trail.