Maven enforcer dependency convergence is getting tripped up despite the fact that I have (or believe I have) excluded the offending dependencies.

Apache Maven 3.9.6 (bc0240f3c744dd6b6ec2920b3cd08dcc295161ae)

$ java --version
openjdk 21.0.1 2023-10-17 LTS

I’m using the maven-enforcer-plugin version 3.4.1, and I’m getting the following error when running mvn clean package.

[ERROR] Failed while enforcing releasability.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Dependency convergence error for org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.7.7 paths to dependency are:
[ERROR] +-com.foo.traf:demo-app:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT
[ERROR]   +-com.microsoft.azure:msal4j-persistence-extension:jar:1.3.0:compile
[ERROR]     +-org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.7.7:compile
[ERROR] and
[ERROR] +-com.foo.traf:demo-app:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT
[ERROR]   +-com.microsoft.azure:msal4j:jar:1.16.1:compile
[ERROR]     +-org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.7.36:compile
[ERROR] and
[ERROR] +-com.foo.traf:demo-app:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT
[ERROR]   +-org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:2.0.13:compile

Here the the relevant snippets of pom file.

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
    <artifactId>msal4j-persistence-extension</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.0</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <artifactId>org.slf4j</artifactId>
            <groupId>slf4j-api</groupId>
        </exclusion>

and

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
    <artifactId>msal4j</artifactId>
    <version>1.16.1</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <artifactId>org.slf4j</artifactId>
            <groupId>slf4j-api</groupId>
        </exclusion>

And mvn dependency:tree seems to agree that slf4j:1.7.x is not included through those roots.

[INFO] +- com.microsoft.azure:msal4j-persistence-extension:jar:1.3.0:compile
[INFO] +- com.microsoft.azure:msal4j:jar:1.16.1:compile
[INFO] |  +- com.nimbusds:oauth2-oidc-sdk:jar:11.9.1:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- com.github.stephenc.jcip:jcip-annotations:jar:1.0-1:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- com.nimbusds:content-type:jar:2.3:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- com.nimbusds:lang-tag:jar:1.7:compile
[INFO] |  |  - com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt:jar:9.37.3:compile
[INFO] |  - net.minidev:json-smart:jar:2.5.0:compile
[INFO] |     - net.minidev:accessors-smart:jar:2.5.0:compile
[INFO] |        - org.ow2.asm:asm:jar:9.3:compile

What am I doing wrong and/or how do I work around this?