diff --git a/clients/dashboard/src/components/layout/nav-data.ts b/clients/dashboard/src/components/layout/nav-data.ts
index 6b5f7f7290..653ee15e12 100644
--- a/clients/dashboard/src/components/layout/nav-data.ts
+++ b/clients/dashboard/src/components/layout/nav-data.ts
@@ -88,9 +88,12 @@ export const sections: NavSection[] = [
     caption: "Identity",
     icon: Users,
     items: [
-      { to: "/identity/users", label: "Users", icon: Users },
-      { to: "/identity/roles", label: "Roles", icon: ShieldCheck },
-      { to: "/identity/groups", label: "Groups", icon: UsersRound },
+      // Gate the identity-management pages on a manage permission (not View): View Users/Roles/Groups
+      // are IsBasic so every member holds them (the chat/user picker relies on Users.View), but only
+      // managers should see these admin pages. Basic lacks the *.Update perms, so the items hide for them.
+      { to: "/identity/users", label: "Users", icon: Users, perm: "Permissions.Users.Update" },
+      { to: "/identity/roles", label: "Roles", icon: ShieldCheck, perm: "Permissions.Roles.Update" },
+      { to: "/identity/groups", label: "Groups", icon: UsersRound, perm: "Permissions.Groups.Update" },
     ],
   },
   {
diff --git a/src/Modules/Identity/Modules.Identity/Authorization/Jwt/JwtAuthenticationExtensions.cs b/src/Modules/Identity/Modules.Identity/Authorization/Jwt/JwtAuthenticationExtensions.cs
index 2404e06f72..d6cae8e680 100644
--- a/src/Modules/Identity/Modules.Identity/Authorization/Jwt/JwtAuthenticationExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/Modules/Identity/Modules.Identity/Authorization/Jwt/JwtAuthenticationExtensions.cs
@@ -25,6 +25,17 @@ internal static IServiceCollection ConfigureJwtAuth(this IServiceCollection serv
         services.AddAuthorizationBuilder().AddRequiredPermissionPolicy();
         services.AddAuthorization(options =>
         {
+            // Permission evaluation lives in the RequiredPermission policy (it reads each
+            // endpoint's RequiredPermissionAttribute metadata). Wire it as BOTH the default
+            // AND the fallback policy:
+            //   - FallbackPolicy covers endpoints with no auth metadata at all.
+            //   - DefaultPolicy covers endpoints that opt in via .RequireAuthorization() —
+            //     including the module route-groups (Catalog/Billing/Chat/Files/…). Without
+            //     this, a group-level .RequireAuthorization() applied the built-in
+            //     authenticated-only default, which SUPPRESSED the fallback, so
+            //     .RequirePermission(...) was never evaluated and any authenticated tenant
+            //     member could perform gated writes. Both must point at the permission policy.
+            options.DefaultPolicy = options.GetPolicy(RequiredPermissionDefaults.PolicyName)!;
             options.FallbackPolicy = options.GetPolicy(RequiredPermissionDefaults.PolicyName);
         });
         return services;
diff --git a/src/Tests/Architecture.Tests/Architecture.Tests.csproj b/src/Tests/Architecture.Tests/Architecture.Tests.csproj
index ff69562c3d..14572d8b25 100644
--- a/src/Tests/Architecture.Tests/Architecture.Tests.csproj
+++ b/src/Tests/Architecture.Tests/Architecture.Tests.csproj
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
     <IsPublishable>false</IsPublishable>
     <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
-    <NoWarn>$(NoWarn);CA1515;CA1861;CA1707;CA1307</NoWarn>
+    <!-- S125: SonarAnalyzer false-positives on descriptive comments with code-like tokens (not dead code). -->
+    <NoWarn>$(NoWarn);CA1515;CA1861;CA1707;CA1307;S125</NoWarn>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="coverlet.collector">
diff --git a/src/Tests/Integration.Tests/Integration.Tests.csproj b/src/Tests/Integration.Tests/Integration.Tests.csproj
index 08470f2940..1aea12e3ab 100644
--- a/src/Tests/Integration.Tests/Integration.Tests.csproj
+++ b/src/Tests/Integration.Tests/Integration.Tests.csproj
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
              CA1515 - internal types; CA1861 - const arrays; CA1707 - underscores in test names;
              CA1307 - StringComparison; CA2234 - Uri vs string; CA2000 - dispose (test scope);
              CA1062 - null checks in test helpers; CA1031 - broad catch in test setup;
-             CA1812 - DI-instantiated test doubles; S1481 - deliberately unused locals in tests -->
-        <NoWarn>$(NoWarn);CA1515;CA1861;CA1707;CA1307;CA2234;CA2000;CA1062;CA1031;CA1812;CA1056;S1481</NoWarn>
+             CA1812 - DI-instantiated test doubles; S1481 - deliberately unused locals in tests;
+             S125 - false-positives on descriptive test comments containing code-like tokens -->
+        <NoWarn>$(NoWarn);CA1515;CA1861;CA1707;CA1307;CA2234;CA2000;CA1062;CA1031;CA1812;CA1056;S1481;S125</NoWarn>
     </PropertyGroup>
 
     <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/src/Tests/Integration.Tests/Tests/Catalog/ProductsEndpointTests.cs b/src/Tests/Integration.Tests/Tests/Catalog/ProductsEndpointTests.cs
index 2365dd7ae9..462d7cfc33 100644
--- a/src/Tests/Integration.Tests/Tests/Catalog/ProductsEndpointTests.cs
+++ b/src/Tests/Integration.Tests/Tests/Catalog/ProductsEndpointTests.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
+using Finbuckle.MultiTenant;
+using Finbuckle.MultiTenant.Abstractions;
+using FSH.Framework.Shared.Multitenancy;
 using FSH.Modules.Catalog.Contracts.Dtos;
+using FSH.Modules.Identity.Domain;
 using Integration.Tests.Infrastructure;
 using Integration.Tests.Infrastructure.Extensions;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity;
 
 namespace Integration.Tests.Tests.Catalog;
 
@@ -469,6 +474,68 @@ public async Task ListTrashedProducts_Should_Return401_When_Unauthenticated()
         response.StatusCode.ShouldBe(HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized);
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task CreateProduct_Should_Return403_When_AuthenticatedUserLacksPermission()
+    {
+        // Regression (broken access control): catalog endpoints sit behind a group-level
+        // .RequireAuthorization(), whose default policy only required authentication. That
+        // shadowed the permission FallbackPolicy, so .RequirePermission(Products.Create) was
+        // never evaluated — ANY authenticated tenant member could create products. A seeded
+        // user holding no catalog-write permission MUST be Forbidden, not fail open.
+        var (email, password) = await CreateActiveNoPermissionUserAsync($"noperm{Guid.NewGuid():N}"[..14]);
+        using var userClient = await _auth.CreateAuthenticatedClientAsync(email, password);
+
+        using var response = await userClient.PostAsJsonAsync(
+            $"{TestConstants.CatalogBasePath}/products",
+            new
+            {
+                sku = UniqueSku("Forbidden"),
+                name = "no-permission user must not create products",
+                description = (string?)null,
+                brandId = Guid.NewGuid(),
+                categoryId = Guid.NewGuid(),
+                priceAmount = 1m,
+                priceCurrency = "USD",
+                stock = 1,
+            });
+
+        response.StatusCode.ShouldBe(HttpStatusCode.Forbidden,
+            "Catalog permission gates must not fail open: a user without Permissions.Products.Create must be rejected.");
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Seeds a confirmed + active root-tenant user with NO roles (hence no catalog
+    /// permissions) via UserManager. Tenant context is set INLINE because it is AsyncLocal —
+    /// an awaited-helper set would be lost and the tenant query filter would throw.
+    /// </summary>
+    private async Task<(string Email, string Password)> CreateActiveNoPermissionUserAsync(string handle)
+    {
+        const string password = TestConstants.DefaultPassword;
+        var email = $"{handle}@example.com";
+
+        using var scope = _factory.Services.CreateScope();
+        var tenant = await scope.ServiceProvider
+            .GetRequiredService<IMultiTenantStore<AppTenantInfo>>()
+            .GetAsync(TestConstants.RootTenantId);
+        scope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<IMultiTenantContextSetter>()
+            .MultiTenantContext = new MultiTenantContext<AppTenantInfo>(tenant);
+
+        var userManager = scope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<UserManager<FshUser>>();
+        var user = new FshUser
+        {
+            FirstName = "No",
+            LastName = "Perm",
+            Email = email,
+            UserName = handle,
+            EmailConfirmed = true,
+            IsActive = true,
+        };
+        var result = await userManager.CreateAsync(user, password);
+        result.Succeeded.ShouldBeTrue(
+            $"Seeding active user failed: {string.Join(", ", result.Errors.Select(e => e.Description))}");
+        return (email, password);
+    }
+
     // ─── idempotency ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
     [Fact]