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Only Unscoped API Key Works for Jira Routes

Shaun Brazzoni
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October 13, 2025

This issue seems to exist on all routes, but my narrowed example is on this route:

/rest/api/3/issue/createmeta/{projectIdOrKey}/issuetypes

I can only use an unscoped key to access that route. If I use a scoped key I get the following error:

"{\"errorMessages\":[\"You cannot create issues in this project.\",\"You are not authorized to perform this operation. Please log in.\"],\"errors\":{}}"

I've created 4 keys with these permissions:

  • read:jira-work (the only required classic permission defined here)
  • every classic permission
  • read:issue-meta:jira, read:avatar:jira, read:field-configuration:jira (the list of narrow permissions)
  • write:jira-workread:jira-work

Every key gives that same error. Am I missing something here?

Edit: This doesn't seem to be limited to Product Discovery. I get the same error when accessing a regular Jira project; I also get the same non-error using an unscoped key on that project.

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