feat(config): add safeguard timeouts (#12604)

* Add safeguard timeouts #2804

* Fix unit tests

* Fix unit tests

* Update lib/util/exec/index.ts

Co-authored-by: Michael Kriese <michael.kriese@visualon.de>

* Changes after code review

* Fixes after merge

Co-authored-by: Michael Kriese <michael.kriese@visualon.de>
Co-authored-by: Rhys Arkins <rhys@arkins.net>