[Snyk] Security upgrade convict from 0.4.3 to 6.2.3

[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
	661/1000 Why? Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 7.5	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-CONVICT-2774757	Yes	No Known Exploit

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

Commit messages

Package name: convict

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• deef5d7 v6.2.3
• 5e64b53 More recent Ubuntu dist for Travis CI build
• 1ea0ab1 More more complete fix for prototype pollution
• c7acb02 Update info regarding publishing on NPM
• 4da12f8 v6.2.2
• 8ad66b5 Update CHANGELOG
• 3b86be0 More complete fix against prototype pollution
• e3173b1 Clearer variable name
• 5eb1314 v6.2.1
• 5ad62d6 Update CHANGELOG
• c682086 fix misspelling of the word optional in the error message (#397)
• bdd8a4e v6.2.0
• f693077 Provide working links in the CHANGELOG
• d90f2f8 Update CHANGELOG
• 11ef47e chore: update dependencies (#390)
• 41e8c4a v6.1.0
• 8d198ef Update CHANGELOG for next 6.1.0 release
• b31d451 Update CHANGELOG for previous release
• 342fab6 Allow null additionally to any format (#386)
• 7e068d8 v6.0.1
• 81771b3 ran npm audit fix
• dc17a2e Merge pull request #384 from 418sec/1-npm-convict
• 180d692 Merge pull request #1 from arjunshibu/master
• 688c46a Security fix for prototype pollution

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