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Add token not working issue to upgrade instructions

What does this MR do?

This docs update to upgrade instructions is trying to cover the issue that a customer encountered after upgradeing to 14.0 Gitlab.

After upgrading to GitLab 14.0.12 from 13.5, they noticed that some external pipelines that were using user impersonation tokens to clone internal/public GitLab projects stopped working. After narrowing down the issue to only two users, eliminating any possible client-side issues, we managed to find out that there was a security issue fixed in the 13.12.2 security release: Insufficient Expired Password Validation. This meant that all users with expired passwords should not be allowed to successfully log in using tokens as well.

For more details read the internal support ticket

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