[Snyk] Upgrade web3 from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1

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Snyk has created this PR to upgrade web3 from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1.

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• The recommended version is 3 versions ahead of your current version.
• The recommended version was released a month ago, on 2021-08-05.

The recommended version fixes:

Severity	Issue	PriorityScore (*)	Exploit Maturity
	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-TAR-1536758	196/1000 Why? CVSS 3.7	No Known Exploit

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

Release notes

Package name: web3

• 1.5.1 - 2021-08-05
  

  Added

  • maxPriorityFeePerGas and maxFeePerGas now included in _txInputFormatter (#4217)
  • If maxPriorityFeePerGas of maxFeePerGas present _txInputFormatter deletes tx.gasPrice (fixes #4211) (#4217)
  • Add block tag support (e.g. latest, pending, earliest) to getFeeHistory (#4224)
  • Support for EIP-1559 to web3.eth.sendTransaction (#4220)
• 1.5.1-rc.1 - 2021-08-05
  

  Added

  • Add block tag support (e.g. latest, pending, earliest) to getFeeHistory (#4224)
  • Support for EIP-1559 to web3.eth.sendTransaction (#4220)
• 1.5.1-rc.0 - 2021-07-31
  

  Added

  • maxPriorityFeePerGas and maxFeePerGas now included in _txInputFormatter (#4217)
  • If maxPriorityFeePerGas of maxFeePerGas present _txInputFormatter deletes tx.gasPrice (fixes #4211) (#4217)
• 1.5.0 - 2021-07-28
  

  Added

  • London transaction support (#4155)
  • RPC support eth_feehistory call (#4191)

  Changed

  • Grammar fix (#4088) and updated Swarm (#4151)and Whisper doc links (#4170)
  • Removed deprecation notice for HttpProvider (#4008)
  • Nonce added to send options in documentation and types (#4052)
  • Updated Solidity example to modern syntax (#4147)
  • Changing web3 connection example from lets to const (#3967)
  • Updated the documentation for the transaction object to include EIP-2718 and EIP-1559 options (#4188)

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  An example of signing an EIP-1559 transaction with web3-eth-accounts

  http://localhost:8545');

  const txObject = {
  to: '0x...',
  value: web3.utils.toHex(web3.utils.toWei('0.1', 'ether')),
  gas: web3.utils.toHex(21000),
  maxFeePerGas: web3.utils.toHex(web3.utils.toWei('1.5', 'gwei')),
  maxPriorityFeePerGas: web3.utils.toHex(web3.utils.toWei('.5', 'gwei'))
  };

  web3.eth.accounts.signTransaction(txObject, privateKey, (err, signed) => {...});
  ">

  import Web3 from 'web3';
  
  const web3 = new Web3(Web3.givenProvider || 'http://localhost:8545');
  const txObject = {
  
  to: '0x...',
  
  value: web3.utils.toHex(web3.utils.toWei('0.1', 'ether')),
  
  gas: web3.utils.toHex(21000),
  
  maxFeePerGas: web3.utils.toHex(web3.utils.toWei('1.5', 'gwei')),
  
  maxPriorityFeePerGas: web3.utils.toHex(web3.utils.toWei('.5', 'gwei'))
  
  };
  web3.eth.accounts.signTransaction(txObject, privateKey, (err, signed) => {...});

  
  

from web3 GitHub release notes

Commit messages

Package name: web3

• 37a046d v1.5.1
• 49488de v1.5.1-rc.1
• 655c5b3 Build for v1.5.1-rc.1
• 45a17a3 Solve merge conflicts
• 29febb8 Add block tag support for eth_feeHistory (#4224)
• c474f8f EIP-1559 support for web3.eth.sendTransaction (#4220)
• 2526266 v1.5.1-rc.0
• e815ccb Update CHANGELOG
• 8642c4a npm i && npm run build
• d0d82b4 Closes #4210, 4211 - allow non-hex values for eip1559 gas params (#4217)
• 458a47a v1.5.0 (#4187)

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