[Snyk] Security upgrade npm from 6.9.0 to 7.21.0

[horngyih]

This PR was automatically created by Snyk using the credentials of a real user.

Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • package.json
  • package-lock.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	551/1000 Why? Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 5.3	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-HTTPCACHESEMANTICS-3248783	Yes	No Known Exploit

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: npm

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• 30a9844 7.21.0
• 0b2cd9d update AUTHORS
• 06461ec docs: changelog for v7.21.0
• 771a1cb chore(tests): fix snapshots
• 71cdfd8 spdx-license-ids@3.0.10
• 94f92de make-fetch-happen@9.0.5
• 7ac621c smart-buffer@4.2.0
• 218caca is-core-module@2.6.0
• ff6626a fix(docs): update npm-publish access flag info
• b6f40b5 tar@6.1.10
• e9e5ee5 @ npmcli/arborist@2.8.2
• 991a3bd read-package-json@4.0.0
• f077724 init-package-json@2.0.4
• 68a19bb fix(error-message): look for er.path not er.file
• ff34d6c feat(cache): initial implementation of ls and rm
• 8183976 normalize-package-data@3.0.3
• df57f0d @ npmcli/run-script@1.8.6
• 487731c fix(logging): sanitize logged argv
• 7a58264 chore(ci): check that docs are up to date in ci
• 22f3bbb chore(docs): add more 'autogenerated' comments
• 4314490 fix(docs): revert auto-generated portion of docs
• 32e88c9 fix(did-you-mean): switch levenshtein libraries
• 59b9851 7.20.6
• 2591e67 update AUTHORS

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