Security: IdentityModel NuGet package versions updated

The following packages were updated to version 6.6.0:

Version introduced

5.0 Preview 7

Old behavior

The package version used is 5.5.0.

New behavior

For details about changes between package versions, see the 6.6.0 release notes.

Reason for change

The packages were updated to take advantage of improvements in the underlying libraries.

The package updates don't introduce public API changes to ASP.NET Core. However, it's possible there are breaking changes in the packages themselves.

Affected APIs

None