diff --git a/dev-tools/omdb/src/bin/omdb/db.rs b/dev-tools/omdb/src/bin/omdb/db.rs
index ff65784de80..1529fceaf9d 100644
--- a/dev-tools/omdb/src/bin/omdb/db.rs
+++ b/dev-tools/omdb/src/bin/omdb/db.rs
@@ -2432,7 +2432,20 @@ async fn cmd_db_disk_info(
     datastore: &DataStore,
     args: &DiskInfoArgs,
 ) -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {
-    match datastore.disk_get(opctx, args.uuid).await? {
+    let disk = {
+        use nexus_db_schema::schema::disk::dsl;
+
+        let conn = datastore.pool_connection_for_tests().await?;
+
+        dsl::disk
+            .filter(dsl::id.eq(args.uuid))
+            .select(nexus_db_model::Disk::as_select())
+            .get_result_async(&*conn)
+            .await
+            .unwrap()
+    };
+
+    match datastore.disk_get_with_model(opctx, disk).await? {
         Disk::Crucible(disk) => {
             crucible_disk_info(opctx, datastore, disk).await
         }
diff --git a/nexus/db-queries/src/db/datastore/disk.rs b/nexus/db-queries/src/db/datastore/disk.rs
index 23907422b79..14e02cac072 100644
--- a/nexus/db-queries/src/db/datastore/disk.rs
+++ b/nexus/db-queries/src/db/datastore/disk.rs
@@ -302,6 +302,9 @@ impl Into<api::external::Disk> for Disk {
 }
 
 impl DataStore {
+    /// Return a `datastore::Disk` given a disk's UUID. Will perform a
+    /// LookupPath in order to retrive the `model::Disk`, then call
+    /// `disk_get_with_model`.
     pub async fn disk_get(
         &self,
         opctx: &OpContext,
@@ -310,6 +313,21 @@ impl DataStore {
         let (.., disk) =
             LookupPath::new(opctx, self).disk_id(disk_id).fetch().await?;
 
+        self.disk_get_with_model(opctx, disk).await
+    }
+
+    /// Return a `datastore::Disk` given a `model::Disk`
+    ///
+    /// Prefer to use `disk_get` instead: this version of the function bypasses
+    /// the LookupPath induced permissions check and is (currently) only called
+    /// from omdb.
+    pub async fn disk_get_with_model(
+        &self,
+        opctx: &OpContext,
+        disk: model::Disk,
+    ) -> LookupResult<Disk> {
+        let disk_id = disk.id();
+
         let conn = self.pool_connection_authorized(opctx).await?;
 
         let disk = match disk.disk_type {