diff --git a/auctioning_platform/Cargo.lock b/auctioning_platform/Cargo.lock
index 835be34..fecebb0 100644
--- a/auctioning_platform/Cargo.lock
+++ b/auctioning_platform/Cargo.lock
@@ -887,9 +887,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "reqwest"
-version = "0.12.0"
+version = "0.12.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "58b48d98d932f4ee75e541614d32a7f44c889b72bd9c2e04d95edd135989df88"
+checksum = "e333b1eb9fe677f6893a9efcb0d277a2d3edd83f358a236b657c32301dc6e5f6"
 dependencies = [
  "base64",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/auctioning_platform/Cargo.toml b/auctioning_platform/Cargo.toml
index 91635b8..17e8f46 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 = "0.12.1", default-features = false }
 rstest = "0.18.2"
 rust_decimal = "1.34.3"
 tokio = { version = "^1.36.0", default-features = false, features = [