fix: add optional flag that allows skipping npm audit checks with OWASP dependency-check scanner

[ravi-m-bah]

PR Details

Allow users to skip npm auditing via flag.

Description

This allows skipping npm audit checks. The core error returned for us (needing us to add this flag to optionally skip this test):

Could not perform Node Audit analysis. Invalid payload submitted to Node Audit API.

This can be tested independently. This is mainly because tests can fail because of possible bugs upstream with the OWASP dependency checker itself (it appears to be brittle/flaky/unknown in why it tends to error):

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ajeremylong%2FDependencyCheck+Could+not+perform+Node+Audit+analysis.+Invalid+payload+submitted+to+Node+Audit+API&type=issues

They vary from duplicated dependencies (which npm may allow, but the npm audit may not, which owasp does not honor by avoiding deduplication) to simply unknown/major version releases.

How Has This Been Tested

This was tested manually in a jenkins setup with @ltdonner-bah's review.

Types of Changes

• Docs change / refactoring / dependency upgrade
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

Checklist

• I am submitting this pull request to the appropriate branch
• I have labeled this pull request appropriately
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• All new and existing tests passed.