Merge branch 'master' into neptune_cve_issues_fix

Author: AbdulR3hman

pom.xml

@@ -369,6 +369,19 @@
                                         <!-- 6. Exclude old junit POM metadata directly -->
                                         <exclude>META-INF/maven/junit/junit/pom.xml</exclude>
                                         <exclude>META-INF/maven/junit/junit/pom.properties</exclude>
+                                        <!-- 7. Fix for CVE-2023-2976, CVE-2020-8908: Exclude escapevelocity metadata that declares vulnerable guava -->
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/maven/com.google.escapevelocity/escapevelocity/pom.xml</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/maven/com.google.escapevelocity/escapevelocity/pom.properties</exclude>
+                                        <!-- 8. Fix for CVE-2025-55163: Exclude Google Cloud BigQuery metadata that declares vulnerable io.grpc -->
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/maven/com.google.cloud/google-cloud-bigquery/pom.xml</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/maven/com.google.cloud/google-cloud-bigquery/pom.properties</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/maven/com.google.cloud/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/pom.xml</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/maven/com.google.cloud/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/pom.properties</exclude>
+                                        <!-- 9. Fix for CVE-2024-7254: Exclude google.api.grpc metadata that declares vulnerable protobuf -->
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/maven/com.google.api.grpc/grpc-google-cloud-bigquerystorage-v1/pom.xml</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/maven/com.google.api.grpc/grpc-google-cloud-bigquerystorage-v1/pom.properties</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/maven/com.google.api.grpc/proto-google-cloud-bigquerystorage-v1/pom.xml</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/maven/com.google.api.grpc/proto-google-cloud-bigquerystorage-v1/pom.properties</exclude>
                                     </excludes>
                                 </filter>
                             </filters>