Products of hidden sub-category are shown in parent anchor category

[magento-engcom-team]

Preconditions

1. Install Magento EE 2.4-develop
2. Indexers are in Update on Save mode
3. Category Permission feature is enabled:

• admin > Stores > Configuration > Catalog > Catalog > Category Permissions
• Enable = Yes
• Allow Browsing Category = Yes, For Everyone
• Display Product Prices = Yes, For Everyone
• Allow Adding to Cart = Yes, For Everyone
• Save Config
• Clear Cache

Steps

1. Create category A

• Name = A Category
• Display Sattings > Anchor = Yes

1. Create sub-category B

• Parrent Category = A Category
• Name = B Sub-Category
• Display Sattings > Anchor = Yes

1. Create product Simple Can you commit to repository a folder dev/tests/static ? #1 and assign it to A Category
2. Create product Simple BUG FIX - Uncaught exception when accessing admin with none existent use... #2 and assign it to B Sub-Category
3. Go to storefront and open A Category as not logged in customer

• it contains Simple Can you commit to repository a folder dev/tests/static ? #1 and Simple BUG FIX - Uncaught exception when accessing admin with none existent use... #2 products and it is expected, because anchor categories should display their own assigned products and all product of their sub-categories(!)

1. Go to admin, open B Sub-Category for edit and add Category Permission:

• Customer Group = NOT LOGGED IN
• Browsing Category = Deny
• Display Product Prices = Deny
• Add to Cart = Deny
• Save category

1. Go to storefront and open A Category again

(-) Actual Result

A Category still contains both products Simple #1 and Simple #2

(+) Expected Result

1. A Category should contain only Simple Can you commit to repository a folder dev/tests/static ? #1
2. Simple BUG FIX - Uncaught exception when accessing admin with none existent use... #2 should not be displayed because browsing of B Sub-Category is denied by permissions for not logged in user, and its product should not be displayed in anchor A Category
3. It should happen immediately after category save as Indexers are in Update on Save mode

[magento-engcom-team]

The issue was exported from the internal JIRA. The link to the original JIRA issue: https://jira.corp.magento.com/browse/MC-25179

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[magento-engcom-team]

✅ Confirmed by @magento-engcom-team
Thank you for verifying the issue. Based on the provided information internal tickets MC-25179 were created

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