[Snyk] Security upgrade ws from 5.2.2 to 7.4.6

[snyk-bot]

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

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-WS-1296835	Yes	No Known Exploit

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

Commit messages

Package name: ws

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• f5297f7 [dist] 7.4.6
• 00c425e [security] Fix ReDoS vulnerability
• 990306d [lint] Fix prettier error
• 32e3a84 [security] Remove reference to Node Security Project
• 8c914d1 [minor] Fix nits
• fc7e27d [ci] Test on node 16
• 587c201 [ci] Do not test on node 15
• f672710 [dist] 7.4.5
• 67e25ff [fix] Fix case where `abortHandshake()` does not close the connection
• 23ba6b2 [fix] Make UTF-8 validation work even if utf-8-validate is not installed
• 114de9e [ci] Use a unique ID instead of commit SHA
• d75a62e [ci] Include commit SHA in `flag-name`
• a74dd2e [dist] 7.4.4
• 9277437 [fix] Recreate the inflate stream if it ends
• cbff929 [doc] Improve `websocket.terminate()` documentation
• 489a295 [ci] Use GitHub Actions (#1853)
• 77370e0 [pkg] Update eslint-config-prettier to version 8.1.0
• 99338f7 [doc] Fix `data` argument type (#1843)
• 223194e [dist] 7.4.3
• 4e9607b [perf] Reset compressor/decompressor instead of re-initialize (#1840)
• 2789887 [minor] Use `request.socket` instead of `request.connection`
• 2079ca5 [test] Increase code coverage
• d1a8af4 [dist] 7.4.2
• 48a2349 [pkg] Update eslint-config-prettier to version 7.1.0

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