[Snyk] Security upgrade web3-provider-engine from 15.0.0 to 17.0.0

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Changes included in this PR

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

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Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	159/1000 Why? Confidentiality impact: None, Integrity impact: None, Availability impact: High, Scope: Unchanged, Exploit Maturity: Proof of Concept, User Interaction (UI): None, Privileges Required (PR): None, Attack Complexity: Low, Attack Vector: Network, EPSS: 0.00132, Social Trends: No, Days since published: 742, Reachable: No, Transitive dependency: Yes, Is Malicious: No, Business Criticality: High, Provider Urgency: High, Package Popularity Score: 99, Impact: 5.99, Likelihood: 2.64, Score Version: V5	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-ASYNC-2441827	Yes	Proof of Concept
	112/1000 Why? Confidentiality impact: High, Integrity impact: None, Availability impact: None, Scope: Changed, Exploit Maturity: No data, User Interaction (UI): None, Privileges Required (PR): None, Attack Complexity: High, Attack Vector: Network, EPSS: 0.00116, Social Trends: No, Days since published: 1170, Reachable: No, Transitive dependency: Yes, Is Malicious: No, Business Criticality: High, Provider Urgency: Medium, Package Popularity Score: 99, Impact: 6.65, Likelihood: 1.67, Score Version: V5	Cryptographic Issues SNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-1064899	Yes	No Known Exploit
	75/1000 Why? Confidentiality impact: Low, Integrity impact: High, Availability impact: None, Scope: Unchanged, Exploit Maturity: No data, User Interaction (UI): None, Privileges Required (PR): None, Attack Complexity: High, Attack Vector: Adjacent, EPSS: 0.01055, Social Trends: No, Days since published: 1618, Reachable: No, Transitive dependency: Yes, Is Malicious: No, Business Criticality: High, Provider Urgency: Medium, Package Popularity Score: 99, Impact: 7.03, Likelihood: 1.07, Score Version: V5	Timing Attack SNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-511941	Yes	No Known Exploit
	221/1000 Why? Confidentiality impact: High, Integrity impact: High, Availability impact: Low, Scope: Unchanged, Exploit Maturity: Proof of Concept, User Interaction (UI): None, Privileges Required (PR): None, Attack Complexity: High, Attack Vector: Network, EPSS: 0.00353, Social Trends: No, Days since published: 1401, Reachable: No, Transitive dependency: Yes, Is Malicious: No, Business Criticality: High, Provider Urgency: High, Package Popularity Score: 99, Impact: 9.08, Likelihood: 2.43, Score Version: V5	Cryptographic Issues SNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-571484	Yes	Proof of Concept
	63/1000 Why? Confidentiality impact: None, Integrity impact: None, Availability impact: Low, Scope: Unchanged, Exploit Maturity: Proof of Concept, User Interaction (UI): None, Privileges Required (PR): None, Attack Complexity: Low, Attack Vector: Network, EPSS: 0.00231, Social Trends: No, Days since published: 1158, Reachable: No, Transitive dependency: Yes, Is Malicious: No, Business Criticality: High, Provider Urgency: Medium, Package Popularity Score: 99, Impact: 2.35, Likelihood: 2.65, Score Version: V5	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-LODASH-1018905	Yes	Proof of Concept
	239/1000 Why? Confidentiality impact: High, Integrity impact: High, Availability impact: High, Scope: Unchanged, Exploit Maturity: Proof of Concept, User Interaction (UI): None, Privileges Required (PR): High, Attack Complexity: Low, Attack Vector: Network, EPSS: 0.00606, Social Trends: No, Days since published: 1158, Reachable: No, Transitive dependency: Yes, Is Malicious: No, Business Criticality: High, Provider Urgency: High, Package Popularity Score: 99, Impact: 9.79, Likelihood: 2.43, Score Version: V5	Command Injection SNYK-JS-LODASH-1040724	Yes	Proof of Concept
	188/1000 Why? Confidentiality impact: None, Integrity impact: Low, Availability impact: High, Scope: Unchanged, Exploit Maturity: Proof of Concept, User Interaction (UI): None, Privileges Required (PR): None, Attack Complexity: Low, Attack Vector: Network, EPSS: 0.01036, Social Trends: No, Days since published: 1451, Reachable: No, Transitive dependency: Yes, Is Malicious: No, Business Criticality: High, Provider Urgency: High, Package Popularity Score: 99, Impact: 7.03, Likelihood: 2.67, Score Version: V5	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-LODASH-567746	Yes	Proof of Concept
	150/1000 Why? Confidentiality impact: Low, Integrity impact: Low, Availability impact: Low, Scope: Unchanged, Exploit Maturity: Proof of Concept, User Interaction (UI): None, Privileges Required (PR): None, Attack Complexity: Low, Attack Vector: Network, EPSS: 0.01055, Social Trends: No, Days since published: 1336, Reachable: No, Transitive dependency: Yes, Is Malicious: No, Business Criticality: High, Provider Urgency: High, Package Popularity Score: 99, Impact: 5.62, Likelihood: 2.67, Score Version: V5	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-LODASH-608086	Yes	Proof of Concept
	170/1000 Why? Confidentiality impact: None, Integrity impact: None, Availability impact: High, Scope: Unchanged, Exploit Maturity: Proof of Concept, User Interaction (UI): None, Privileges Required (PR): None, Attack Complexity: Low, Attack Vector: Network, EPSS: 0.01055, Social Trends: No, Days since published: 3, Reachable: No, Transitive dependency: Yes, Is Malicious: No, Business Criticality: High, Provider Urgency: High, Package Popularity Score: 99, Impact: 5.99, Likelihood: 2.83, Score Version: V5	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-LODASH-6139239	Yes	Proof of Concept
	169/1000 Why? Confidentiality impact: None, Integrity impact: None, Availability impact: High, Scope: Unchanged, Exploit Maturity: Proof of Concept, User Interaction (UI): None, Privileges Required (PR): None, Attack Complexity: Low, Attack Vector: Network, EPSS: 0.00091, Social Trends: No, Days since published: 303, Reachable: No, Transitive dependency: Yes, Is Malicious: No, Business Criticality: High, Provider Urgency: High, Package Popularity Score: 99, Impact: 5.99, Likelihood: 2.81, Score Version: V5	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-SEMVER-3247795	Yes	Proof of Concept

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

Commit messages

Package name: web3-provider-engine

The new version differs by 126 commits.

• c980e52 Release 17.0.0 (An in-range update of ethers is breaking the build 🚨 #474)
• 0e45c90 devDeps: ganache-core@2.13.2->ganache@^7.9.2 (2.2.0 merge into 3.0.0 #473)
• 5400086 devDeps: ethjs@^0.3.6 -> @ metamask/ethjs@^0.6.0 (Adding Circle CI to dev-2.2.0 #470)
• c8335a1 Bump express from 4.18.2 to 4.19.2 (Dev 2.2.0 merge into Dev 3.0.0 #472)
• e9849a7 chore: bump runtime deps (Adding Circle CI to master #471)
• 7dc8cc1 chore: Add deprecation notice (Adding Circle CI to dev-3.0.0 #469)
• 2b354fd Update security code scanner file (Circle ci #468)
• 5b15643 Bump es5-ext from 0.10.62 to 0.10.64 (Use bokky's timestamp library in scheduled checkpoint #466)
• f67b49e Enabling MetaMask security code scanner (Fix rounding off errors #467)
• f131161 Bump browserify-sign from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 ([CLI] Some improvements #464)
• 01c8dc8 sync v16.x changes (Adding Circle CI to dev-2.1.0 #463)
• f68b6e4 devDeps: tape@^4.4.0->^5.7.1 (Fetch poly token from pm registry #460)
• d5da4c8 devDeps(test): replace ethereumjs-util with @ ethereumjs/util,ethereum-cryptography ([WIP] Coveralls fix #457)
• a3d4dd6 fix(etherscan,rpc): fix require of @ cypress/request (Merge master into dev-2.1.0 #458)
• 5a95dc6 devDeps: browserify@^16.5.0->^17.0.0 (Potential Bug in ManualApprovalTransferManager  #456)
• 4edf2ba ci: run bundle as part of build-lint-test workflow (Merge dev-2.1 and master #455)
• fb5c25e babelify dependencies (Merge dev 2.1 and master #454)
• 02afa4c deps: readable-stream@^2.2.9->^3.6.2 (Update solc to the latest version 🚀 #452)
• 7e28f6d deps: Bump ethereumjs and metamask packages ([CLI] Support multiple Stable Coins #453)
• f92ca6f BREAKING: Increase minimum Node.js version to 16 ([CLI] Add count and percentage tm #447)
• 730bd5c deps: lockbump minimist (adding change log for module labeling #445)
• 06ac733 Release 16.0.6 (Docs fix master #449)
• d0d93b9 devDeps: bump babel packages (MATM changes #450)
• e131674 ci: run on ubuntu-latest(22.04) instead of ubuntu-20.04 (Fixed docs generation #448)

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