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Preface: Resolving issues related with Dependabot::SharedHelpers::HelperSubprocessFailed issues

Issue: Dependabot will throw uknown_error in case a configuration file is missing an env token. Example
"//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken" ${NPM_TOKEN}. Usually env vars are provided through .env file with the project repo or through a CI/CD pipeline. Following is variation of errors that is returned from native helper:

Failed to replace env in config: ${GITHUB_TOKEN}
Failed to replace env in config: ${ARTIFACTORY_READ_USER}
Failed to replace env in config: ${FAST_HTTPAUTH}
Failed to replace env in config: ${NPM_TOKEN}

Current error log:

+-------------------------------+
| Dependencies failed to update |
+---------------+---------------+
| js | unknown_error |
+---------------+---------------+

Fix: To capture the response returned from native helper and raise new exception failed_to_replace_env exception instead.

+---------------------------------------------------+
| Dependencies failed to update |
+-----------+---------------------------------------+
| io | failed_to_replace_env |
+-----------+---------------------------------------+

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