doc/security: enrich seventh listitem

This PR improves the language of the seventh listitem
in the Vulnerability Management Process in the security
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Zac Dover <zac.dover@gmail.com>
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@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ Vulnerability Management Process
and share the mutually agreed disclosure date with the reporter.
#. The vulnerability disclosure / release date is set excluding Friday and
holiday periods.
#. Embargoes are preferred for Critical and High impact
issues. Embargo should not be held for more than 90 days from the
date of vulnerability confirmation, except under unusual
circumstances. For Low and Moderate issues with limited impact and
an easy workaround or where an issue that is already public, a
standard patch release process will be followed to fix the
vulnerability once CVE is assigned.
#. Embargoes are preferred for "Critical" and "High impact" issues. Embargoes
should not be in effect for more than 90 days from the date of the
confirmation of the vulnerability, except under unusual circumstances. For
"Low" and "Moderate" issues with limited impact and an easy workaround (or
in cases where an issue is already public), a unique CVE identifier will be
assigned and then a standard patch release process will be followed to fix
the vulnerability.
#. Medium and Low severity issues will be released as part of the next
standard release cycle, with at least a 7 days advanced
notification to the list members prior to the release date. The CVE