diff --git a/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/bulk_get.ts b/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/bulk_get.ts
index 8d0dce9b1139f..b45a058c56d78 100644
--- a/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/bulk_get.ts
+++ b/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/bulk_get.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
  */
 
 import type { Payload } from '@hapi/boom';
-import Boom from '@hapi/boom';
 import { isNotFoundFromUnsupportedServer } from '@kbn/core-elasticsearch-server-internal';
 import type {
   DecoratedError,
@@ -32,6 +31,7 @@ import {
   left,
   right,
   rawDocExistsInNamespaces,
+  isForbiddenSpacesError,
 } from './utils';
 import type { ApiExecutionContext } from './types';
 
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ export const performBulkGet = async <T>(
       availableSpacesPromise = spacesExtension!
         .getSearchableNamespaces([ALL_NAMESPACES_STRING])
         .catch((err) => {
-          if (Boom.isBoom(err) && err.output.payload.statusCode === 403) {
+          if (isForbiddenSpacesError(err)) {
             // the user doesn't have access to any spaces; return the current space ID and allow the SOR authZ check to fail
             return [SavedObjectsUtils.namespaceIdToString(namespace)];
           } else {
diff --git a/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/find.ts b/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/find.ts
index 942aed6691480..60a2bbc249754 100644
--- a/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/find.ts
+++ b/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/find.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
  * License v3.0 only", or the "Server Side Public License, v 1".
  */
 
-import Boom from '@hapi/boom';
 import type { estypes } from '@elastic/elasticsearch';
 import { isSupportedEsServer } from '@kbn/core-elasticsearch-server-internal';
 import type {
@@ -36,6 +35,7 @@ import {
   validateAndConvertAggregations,
 } from '../search';
 import { includedFields } from '../utils';
+import { isForbiddenSpacesError } from './utils';
 
 export interface PerformFindParams {
   options: SavedObjectsFindOptions;
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ export const performFind = async <T = unknown, A = unknown>(
     try {
       namespaces = await spacesExtension.getSearchableNamespaces(options.namespaces);
     } catch (err) {
-      if (Boom.isBoom(err) && err.output.payload.statusCode === 403) {
+      if (isForbiddenSpacesError(err)) {
         // The user is not authorized to access any space, return an empty response.
         return SavedObjectsUtils.createEmptyFindResponse<T, A>(options);
       }
diff --git a/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/open_point_in_time.ts b/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/open_point_in_time.ts
index 58682337bf777..997785eec7437 100644
--- a/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/open_point_in_time.ts
+++ b/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/open_point_in_time.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
  * License v3.0 only", or the "Server Side Public License, v 1".
  */
 
-import Boom from '@hapi/boom';
 import { isSupportedEsServer } from '@kbn/core-elasticsearch-server-internal';
 import { SavedObjectsErrorHelpers } from '@kbn/core-saved-objects-server';
 import { DEFAULT_NAMESPACE_STRING } from '@kbn/core-saved-objects-utils-server';
@@ -17,6 +16,7 @@ import type {
   SavedObjectsOpenPointInTimeResponse,
 } from '@kbn/core-saved-objects-api-server';
 import type { ApiExecutionContext } from './types';
+import { isForbiddenSpacesError } from './utils';
 
 export interface PerforOpenPointInTimeParams {
   type: string | string[];
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ export const performOpenPointInTime = async <T>(
     try {
       namespaces = await spacesExtension.getSearchableNamespaces(options.namespaces);
     } catch (err) {
-      if (Boom.isBoom(err) && err.output.payload.statusCode === 403) {
+      if (isForbiddenSpacesError(err)) {
         // The user is not authorized to access any space, throw a bad request error.
         throw SavedObjectsErrorHelpers.createBadRequestError();
       }
diff --git a/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/search.ts b/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/search.ts
index 00f208bac1fe7..ed59cbb37d0d4 100644
--- a/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/search.ts
+++ b/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/search.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
  * License v3.0 only", or the "Server Side Public License, v 1".
  */
 import { castArray } from 'lodash';
-import Boom from '@hapi/boom';
 import type { estypes } from '@elastic/elasticsearch';
 import { isSupportedEsServer } from '@kbn/core-elasticsearch-server-internal';
 import {
@@ -23,6 +22,7 @@ import type {
 import type { ApiExecutionContext } from './types';
 import { getNamespacesBoolFilter } from '../search';
 import type { NamespacesBoolFilter } from '../search/search_dsl/query_params';
+import { isForbiddenSpacesError } from './utils';
 
 export interface PerformSearchParams {
   options: SavedObjectsSearchOptions;
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ export async function performSearch<T extends SavedObjectsRawDocSource, A = unkn
     namespaces =
       (await spacesExtension?.getSearchableNamespaces(requestedNamespaces)) ?? requestedNamespaces;
   } catch (error) {
-    if (Boom.isBoom(error) && error.output.payload.statusCode === 403) {
+    if (isForbiddenSpacesError(error)) {
       // The user is not authorized to access any space, return an empty response.
       return createEmptySearchResponse();
     }
diff --git a/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/utils/index.ts b/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/utils/index.ts
index e51be5dd2cfd3..7ca3d78d525ba 100644
--- a/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/utils/index.ts
+++ b/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/utils/index.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ export {
   setManaged,
   normalizeNamespace,
   getSavedObjectNamespaces,
+  isForbiddenSpacesError,
   type GetSavedObjectFromSourceOptions,
 } from './internal_utils';
 export { type Left, type Either, type Right, isLeft, isRight, left, right } from './either';
diff --git a/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/utils/internal_utils.ts b/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/utils/internal_utils.ts
index 80fd9705fceab..1f3d9c040901c 100644
--- a/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/utils/internal_utils.ts
+++ b/src/core/packages/saved-objects/api-server-internal/src/lib/apis/utils/internal_utils.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 import type { estypes } from '@elastic/elasticsearch';
 import type { Payload } from '@hapi/boom';
+import Boom from '@hapi/boom';
 import {
   SavedObjectsErrorHelpers,
   type ISavedObjectTypeRegistry,
@@ -294,3 +295,7 @@ export const errorContent = (error: DecoratedError) => error.output.payload;
 export function isMgetDoc(doc?: estypes.MgetResponseItem<unknown>): doc is estypes.GetGetResult {
   return Boolean(doc && 'found' in doc);
 }
+
+export function isForbiddenSpacesError(error: unknown): boolean {
+  return Boom.isBoom(error) && error.output.payload.statusCode === 403;
+}