diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8a3c6a045..6ac3549ea 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1960,9 +1960,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "reqwest"
-version = "0.11.4"
+version = "0.11.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "246e9f61b9bb77df069a947682be06e31ac43ea37862e244a69f177694ea6d22"
+checksum = "51c732d463dd300362ffb44b7b125f299c23d2990411a4253824630ebc7467fb"
 dependencies = [
  "base64 0.13.0",
  "bytes 1.1.0",
@@ -2835,8 +2835,6 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "632f73e236b219150ea279196e54e610f5dbafa5d61786303d4da54f84e47fce"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if 1.0.0",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
  "wasm-bindgen-macro",
 ]
 
diff --git a/backend/Cargo.toml b/backend/Cargo.toml
index 529d34640..db82462b4 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ path = "src/main.rs"
 actix-http-test = "2.1.0"
 actix-http = "2.2.1"
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
-reqwest = { version = "0.11.4", features = ["blocking", "json"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.11.5", features = ["blocking", "json"] }
 
 [dependencies]
 actix = "0.10.0"