[Snyk] Security upgrade electron-forge from 2.12.0 to 5.2.4

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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

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	718/1000 Why? Proof of Concept exploit, Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 6.5	Information Exposure SNYK-JS-FOLLOWREDIRECTS-6444610	Yes	Proof of Concept

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

Commit messages

Package name: electron-forge

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• 40923b8 5.2.4
• bb86306 updated CHANGELOG.md
• 6640d98 set executableName on Linux tests only
• 141e8ab Set executableName to fix binary symlink failure
• 9100313 chore(maker): force bump debian and snap dependencies to bring in fixes
• 1522dc5 chore(maker): upgrade electron-installer-snap to ^3.0.1 for Electron 4 support
• 9e18ad9 fix(generic): throw an error when there is no node_modules folder in the project
• 8b290d6 5.2.3
• ab31294 updated CHANGELOG.md
• 8d16b20 chore(maker): upgrade electron-wix-msi to 2.x
• d194f6e fix(maker): return the correct outPath for a deb prerelease version (Fix handle-file-urls on Windows adopted-ember-addons/ember-electron#589)
• befdf65 5.2.2
• 0d36963 updated CHANGELOG.md
• 602f030 fix(packager): disable the all option (build(deps-dev): bump ember-cli-htmlbars from 5.1.2 to 5.2.0 adopted-ember-addons/ember-electron#509)
• 977d112 5.2.1
• 461eb74 updated CHANGELOG.md
• 15a6879 fix(publisher): remove deprecated option from @ octokit/rest params
• e26de71 fix(initializer): fix setting Electron version in.compilerc when it's x.0 (build(deps-dev): bump sass from 1.26.8 to 1.26.9 adopted-ember-addons/ember-electron#506)
• 049055c 5.2.0
• 2e9becf updated CHANGELOG.md
• 2f1888e feat(publisher): Allow custom release channel for ERS (build(deps-dev): bump release-it from 13.5.8 to 13.6.0 adopted-ember-addons/ember-electron#474)
• 489a25c refactor(generic): incorporate changes requested in PR
• 05874ae feat(generic): allow specifying electron-prebuilt-compile via URL
• 1075d68 refactor(packager): decouple electron version from packageJSON

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