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🎯 What: The vulnerability fixed
An XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability was present in scripts/fetch_sourcing_bom.py due to the use of the standard library xml.etree.ElementTree parser for processing KiCad XML Bill of Materials (BOM) files.

⚠️ Risk: The potential impact if left unfixed
If an attacker could control the contents of the KiCad XML BOM file being processed, they could exploit the XXE vulnerability to perform Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), read local files on the system running the script (such as the CI server), or potentially cause a Denial of Service (DoS) through entity expansion attacks (billion laughs).

🛡️ Solution: How the fix addresses the vulnerability
The standard library xml.etree.ElementTree import was replaced with defusedxml.ElementTree. The defusedxml package is specifically designed to safely parse untrusted XML data by disabling the processing of external entities and DTDs by default, thereby entirely mitigating the XXE attack vector while maintaining API compatibility. Additionally, GitHub Actions workflow files (.github/workflows/devops-ci.yml and .github/workflows/run-kicad-ci.yml) were updated to install the new defusedxml dependency.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 10196404447633928831 started by @aman-katyal

Replaced xml.etree.ElementTree with defusedxml.ElementTree in fetch_sourcing_bom.py to prevent XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerabilities during BOM parsing.
Updated CI workflow files to install the new defusedxml dependency to ensure compatibility in downstream pipelines.

Co-authored-by: aman-katyal <181611364+aman-katyal@users.noreply.github.com>
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