MSB4006 Circular dependency error
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Description
### Issue Description
Recently I came across circular dependency error that should not be thrown.
[SimpleMultiProcTest.zip](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/21165160/SimpleMultiProcTest.zip)
here is a sample of 5 projects dependencies:
```mermaid
graph TD
ProjectA --> ProjectB
ProjectA --> ProjectC
ProjectC --> ProjectD
ProjectC --> ProjectE
```
When trying to build ProjectA there is _sometimes_ MSB4006 error
### Steps to Reproduce
1. try to build ProjectA.csproj a few times until you see the error
2. error:
```
dotnet build ProjectA.csproj
Restore complete (0,3s)
ProjectE failed with 1 error(s) (0,1s)
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/9.0.301/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2138,5): error MSB4006: There is a circular dependency in the target dependency graph involving target "ResolveProjectReferences".
ProjectD failed with 1 error(s) (0,1s)
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/9.0.301/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2138,5): error MSB4006: There is a circular dependency in the target dependency graph involving target "ResolveProjectReferences".
Build failed with 2 error(s) in 0,9s
```
### Expected Behavior
there shouldn't be any circular dependency error
### Actual Behavior
MSB4006 is thrown sometimes
### Analysis
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### Versions & Configurations
17.14.5.21107
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