fix: panic in authz

[atheeshp]

Description

Closes: #11478

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[amaury1093]

Let's add a changelog entry

[tac0turtle]

seems this is causing sims to fail

[atheeshp]

seems this is causing sims to fail

yeah, but can't reproduce in the local and they are passing in the last commit too. I've checked the previous commits too, there is no failure of checks which are failing in the last 2 commits. And also the failed tests are related to the group module not related to the current changes.