fix(deps): Relax protobuf upper bound to <7.0 for CVE-2026-0994

Raise the protobuf upper bound from <6.32 to <7.0 so users on the 6.x
line can upgrade to 6.33.5+ which contains the fix for CVE-2026-0994.
The minimum remains >=3.12 to avoid breaking existing environments.

Fixes #5548

Author: mufiAmazon

pyproject.toml

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "pandas>=2.3.0",
   "pathos",
   "platformdirs",
-  "protobuf>=3.12,<6.32",
+  "protobuf>=3.12,<7.0",
   "psutil",
   "PyYAML>=6.0.1",
   "requests",