Review and apply for high and critical vulnerabilities reported by dependabot

[kannananil]

• Review all the dependencies having critical and high vulnerabilities reported by dependabot
• Make necessary version upgrades to dependencies and run a sanity check to make sure all the functionalities works properly post upgrade
• Raise a PR with necessary fixes

[VanmathiMuthusamy]

@kannananil I would like to work on this, can you assign this to me?

[kannananil]

@VanmathiMuthusamy, really sorry for the delay, did not noticed your message on this issue. I think these alerts so far had been taken care by some version upgrades done while setting up the build pipeline. I will notify you if anything else comes up.