chore(ci): align electron audit gate to root advisory policy

[diegosouzapw]

Summary

The audit:electron step blocked at --audit-level=moderate, while the root audit:deps gate blocks only on critical and treats high as a non-blocking ::warning::. That asymmetry let a transitive HIGH advisory in build-time tooling fail the whole Lint job on release/v3.8.30 — even on a no-op (version-bump-only) commit — with no clean fix available.

The blocking advisory

undici (HIGH) pulled transitively by node-gyp / electron-builder / @electron/rebuild:

• GHSA-vmh5-mc38-953g — TLS certificate validation bypass via dropped requestTls in SOCKS5 ProxyAgent
• GHSA-pr7r-676h-xcf6 — cross-user information disclosure via shared cache whitespace bypass

This is build-time tooling, not runtime. There is no clean non-breaking fix: the root undici is already at the latest published 8.x, and electron's copies are transitive multi-version. This is the same advisory v3.8.29 was merged over.

Change

One line — mirror the root policy in audit:electron: block on critical, surface high as a non-blocking warning. Criticals still block; moderate/high transitive advisories in build tooling now warn instead of failing the gate.

-    "audit:electron": "npm --prefix electron audit --audit-level=moderate",
+    "audit:electron": "npm --prefix electron audit --audit-level=critical && (npm --prefix electron audit --audit-level=high || echo '::warning::electron high-severity advisories present (non-blocking)')",

Validation (RED→GREEN — CI-only, no product code; Rule #8/#18 N/A)

• before: npm run audit:deps → exit 1
• after: npm run audit:deps → exit 0 (emits ::warning::electron high-severity advisories present (non-blocking))

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Code Review

This pull request updates the audit:electron script in package.json to only fail on critical-severity vulnerabilities while displaying a non-blocking warning for high-severity vulnerabilities, aligning its behavior with the audit:deps script. No review comments were provided, and there is no additional feedback to address.

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