diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 815cbb4..d4d9668 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ exclude = ["sqlite-forensic-fuzz"]
 [advisories]
 version = 2
 yanked = "deny"
+# Time-boxed ignore (added 2026-07; revisit each release). quick-xml <0.41 has
+# two DoS advisories — RUSTSEC-2026-0194 (quadratic duplicate-attribute check)
+# and RUSTSEC-2026-0195 (unbounded namespace-declaration allocation). Both are
+# DoS-only (not RCE/memory-unsafety) and reach the tree ONLY through the
+# dev-dependency `calamine 0.35.0`, which pins `quick-xml = "^0.39"` and cannot
+# resolve to the fixed 0.41.0. calamine 0.35 is the newest release in our range,
+# so no upgrade path exists yet. Drop both IDs once calamine widens its quick-xml
+# requirement to >=0.41 (or a newer calamine we can adopt does).
+ignore = ["RUSTSEC-2026-0194", "RUSTSEC-2026-0195"]
 
 [licenses]
 version = 2
diff --git a/forensic/tests/audit.rs b/forensic/tests/audit.rs
index 01afbf5..84d82fb 100644
--- a/forensic/tests/audit.rs
+++ b/forensic/tests/audit.rs
@@ -282,9 +282,16 @@ fn real_engine_secure_delete_raises_the_fingerprint() {
         return;
     }
 
+    // `auto_vacuum=NONE` is load-bearing: a sqlite3 built with
+    // `SQLITE_DEFAULT_AUTOVACUUM=1` (e.g. the macOS CI runner's engine) reclaims
+    // the DELETE-freed pages and truncates the file, leaving freelist_count=0 and
+    // NO freed leaf pages — so the fingerprint has nothing to fire on and the
+    // oracle's premise fails through no fault of the detector. Forcing auto_vacuum
+    // off keeps the freed-leaf freelist on every conforming build (a no-op on the
+    // builds that already default to off), making the oracle host-independent.
     // Enough rows that DELETE frees whole pages onto the freelist (in-page
     // freeblocks alone would leave freelist_count=0 and exercise nothing).
-    let script = "PRAGMA page_size=4096; CREATE TABLE t(x TEXT);\n\
+    let script = "PRAGMA auto_vacuum=NONE; PRAGMA page_size=4096; CREATE TABLE t(x TEXT);\n\
          WITH RECURSIVE c(n) AS (SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT n+1 FROM c WHERE n<2000)\n\
          INSERT INTO t SELECT 'row-'||n||'-'||hex(randomblob(40)) FROM c;\n\
          DELETE FROM t WHERE rowid>200;";