[Snyk] Security upgrade setuptools from 40.5.0 to 78.1.1

[mitchelllisle]

Snyk has created this PR to fix 1 vulnerabilities in the pip dependencies of this project.

Snyk changed the following file(s):

• requirements/dev.txt

⚠️ Warning

flake8 5.0.4 has requirement importlib-metadata<4.3,>=1.1.0; python_version < "3.8", but you have importlib-metadata 6.7.0.

---

Important

• Check the changes in this PR to ensure they won't cause issues with your project.
• Max score is 1000. Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.
• This PR was automatically created by Snyk using the credentials of a real user.
• Some vulnerabilities couldn't be fully fixed and so Snyk will still find them when the project is tested again. This may be because the vulnerability existed within more than one direct dependency, but not all of the affected dependencies could be upgraded.

---

Note: You are seeing this because you or someone else with access to this repository has authorized Snyk to open fix PRs.

For more information:
🧐 View latest project report
📜 Customise PR templates
🛠 Adjust project settings
📚 Read about Snyk's upgrade logic

---

Learn how to fix vulnerabilities with free interactive lessons:

🦉 Directory Traversal

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR upgrades setuptools from version 40.5.0 to 78.1.1 to address security vulnerability SNYK-PYTHON-SETUPTOOLS-9964606. However, the actual change shown in the diff unexpectedly downgrades the certifi package requirement, which may have security implications.

• Addresses a directory traversal vulnerability in setuptools
• Downgrades certifi minimum version requirement from 2024.7.4 to 2023.7.22

---

💡 Add Copilot custom instructions for smarter, more guided reviews. Learn how to get started.

[Copilot]

The certifi package is being downgraded from >=2024.7.4 to >=2023.7.22. This downgrade may reintroduce security vulnerabilities that were previously fixed. The PR description mentions this is a security upgrade for setuptools, but this change appears to weaken the security posture by allowing older versions of certifi. Please verify this change is intentional and does not introduce known vulnerabilities.

Suggested change

	certifi>=2023.7.22 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability
	certifi>=2024.7.4 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability