Advisories for Pypi/Esphome-Device-Builder package

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ESPHome Device Builder: Renamed auth env vars silently disable dashboard authentication on upgrade

The dashboard reads its authentication credentials from $ESPHOME_USERNAME and $ESPHOME_PASSWORD. Earlier versions, and the legacy esphome dashboard, read the bare $USERNAME and $PASSWORD instead. When the env vars were renamed the bare names were dropped with no fallback, so an operator who had protected their dashboard with USERNAME / PASSWORD (as the older getting started guide documented) loses authentication on upgrade and the dashboard starts open to anyone who can …

ESPHome Device Builder Dashboard: Unauthenticated dashboard access via the HA add-on ingress site bound to all interfaces

On the Home Assistant add-on, the dashboard serves a trusted ingress site that skips authentication because the supervisor authenticates the request upstream. That site was binding 0.0.0.0. The add-on runs in host network mode for mDNS, so binding all interfaces also bound the host's LAN interface, and any device on the local network could reach http://<ha-ip>:<ingress_port>/ and get the full dashboard with no credentials.