Fixing vulnerabilities by upgrading lib versions

[pdthummar]

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Codecov Report

Merging #1292 (c7e13d2) into dev (0d9b9b2) will decrease coverage by 53.04%.
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- Coverage   85.35%   32.31%   -53.04%     
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  Lines        1925     1925               
  Branches      366      366               
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- Hits         1643      622     -1021     
- Misses        219     1302     +1083     
+ Partials       63        1       -62     

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unittests	32.31% <ø> (-52.99%)	⬇️

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