diff --git a/auctioning_platform/Cargo.lock b/auctioning_platform/Cargo.lock
index 0975b8b..153c3cf 100644
--- a/auctioning_platform/Cargo.lock
+++ b/auctioning_platform/Cargo.lock
@@ -151,9 +151,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "base64"
-version = "0.21.7"
+version = "0.22.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9d297deb1925b89f2ccc13d7635fa0714f12c87adce1c75356b39ca9b7178567"
+checksum = "9475866fec1451be56a3c2400fd081ff546538961565ccb5b7142cbd22bc7a51"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bitvec"
@@ -887,9 +887,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "reqwest"
-version = "0.12.0"
+version = "0.12.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "58b48d98d932f4ee75e541614d32a7f44c889b72bd9c2e04d95edd135989df88"
+checksum = "3e6cc1e89e689536eb5aeede61520e874df5a4707df811cd5da4aa5fbb2aae19"
 dependencies = [
  "base64",
  "bytes",
@@ -1577,9 +1577,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "winreg"
-version = "0.50.0"
+version = "0.52.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "524e57b2c537c0f9b1e69f1965311ec12182b4122e45035b1508cd24d2adadb1"
+checksum = "a277a57398d4bfa075df44f501a17cfdf8542d224f0d36095a2adc7aee4ef0a5"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
  "windows-sys 0.48.0",
diff --git a/auctioning_platform/Cargo.toml b/auctioning_platform/Cargo.toml
index 534e23a..1f52f16 100644
--- a/auctioning_platform/Cargo.toml
+++ b/auctioning_platform/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ foundation = { version = "0.1.0", path = "./foundation" }
 # external crates
 axum = { version = "0.7", default-features = false, features = ["tokio"] }
 chrono = "0.4.35"
-reqwest = { version = "0.12.0", default-features = false }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12.3", default-features = false }
 rstest = "0.18.2"
 rust_decimal = "1.34.3"
 tokio = { version = "^1.37.0", default-features = false, features = [