Add vulnerability scanning on top of the SBOM
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The SBOM was generated and installed onto every server, and nothing read it.
"Are we exposed to this advisory" was still a person going and looking, which
meant it happened when somebody remembered to.

scripts/scan_sbom.py queries OSV.dev by purl - no account, no API key, no agent,
no vulnerability database to maintain on a box that cannot reach the internet.
The SBOM is already the input OSV wants, so this is a lookup against what
shipped rather than a second scan of the tree that could disagree with it.

Three decisions worth recording:

Shipped and build-only findings are both reported, but only shipped ones can
fail a build. Two thirds of the components here are build tooling the SBOM
already marks scope 'excluded', and the highest-severity match in the whole tree
today is a CRITICAL against the test runner. A gate that fails a release over
that trains everybody to bypass it, and then it catches nothing.

Severity is taken from the advisory, never derived. Where there is only a CVSS
vector the report says UNKNOWN, which is shown and never gates. A guessed score
is worse than an honest gap because somebody would act on it.

The allowlist is a record rather than a mute button: each entry carries the
reason, the accepter, the date, and what would invalidate the reasoning. The
first entry is a worked example - a PyJWT algorithm-confusion advisory that
needs both mixed algorithm families and a raw JSON JWK as the key, and this
application configures neither.

The report ends with a per-component upgrade rollup, since that is the part
somebody acts on. A target on a different major version is labelled rather than
listed beside patch bumps as though the two cost the same.

Current state: 8 shipped components have fixes available, none of them
exploitable through a path this application opens today.
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@@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ and its version, installed on the server as `sbom.cdx.json`. If your security
team asks whether you are exposed to a published vulnerability, that file
answers it without anyone guessing.
That inventory is also checked against published advisories before a release is
issued, so the fixes described above are found rather than waited for. Your copy
of the file lets your own team repeat that check independently, on their
schedule and with their own tooling.
An update that is only a dependency bump is still worth taking: the version
number moves and the application behaviour does not.