Security issue with content areas

Hi Everyone,
I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this. If you have, is there a work around? It seems like some of content area security is cached in the database. This is what happened in my two test cases.
Test case 1:
- First I created several content areas with subfolders by using the wwwsbr_api.
- I granted access to just to the content area, and not the subfolders. I did this because when I looked at the content areas created above, the Add Privileges To All Sub-folders was marked.
- Then when I login as the test user I was able to see the content area, but none of the subfolders. That didn?t surprise me because I was guessing that the radio button to add privileges to the subfolder was only used when the user pressed the Cascade Privileges button.
- I granted access to the all subfolders on the content areas the test user should be able to access.
- Then I login again with the test you. I move into the content area that I viewed the first time, and I still can?t see the subfolders. But I could see all the subfolders of the other content areas the test user had access to.
- I logged in to make sure the group was added to access the subfolders of the content area. The group did have access to the content area and all the subfolders, but the user still could not see the subfolders.
- The only way the test user was finally able to see the subfolders was for me to go to the content area and pressed the Cascade Privileges with Add Privileges To All Sub-folders marked.
So it seems like for some reason Oracle is storing the security, and not updating it when it is updated via API for content areas.
Test case 2:
- First I created several content areas with subfolders by using the wwwsbr_api.
- I granted access to just to the content area, and not the subfolders.
- Then when I login as the test user I was able to see the content area, but none of the subfolders.
- I alter the test user and give him the privilege to view all content areas.
- I login again as the test user, and I go to the content area I looked at the first time I logged in, but still couldn?t see any of the subfolders in it. I went to two other content areas, and was able to see all the subfolders.
- I alter the test user again removing the privilege to view all content areas.
- I login again as the test user and look at the second and third content area again. I still could see all the subfolders even though the user does not have access to them.
I have tried clearing cache, history, deleting all temporary files and restarting my computer to make sure that it was not caching issue in the browser.
Thanks,
Tom

Hello Simon,
do you have access to SAP notes? Here you will find the detailed information when the problem will be solved:
[Note 1178438|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1178438]
Regards, Christiane

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