diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 3f04a36..042a18a 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     #   -r https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/N2VC.git;a=blob_plain;f=requirements.txt;hb=master
     #   cryptography
     #   pynacl
-charset-normalizer==3.0.1
+charset-normalizer==2.1.1
     # via
     #   -r https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/N2VC.git;a=blob_plain;f=requirements.txt;hb=master
     #   requests
diff --git a/requirements-test.in b/requirements-test.in
index 25fda89..394c6c3 100644
--- a/requirements-test.in
+++ b/requirements-test.in
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@
 # For those usages not covered by the Apache License, Version 2.0 please
 # contact: helena.mcgough@intel.com or adrian.hoban@intel.com
 ##
+certifi
+charset-normalizer<3 # Required by aiohttp in LCM via N2VC
 coverage
 mock
 nose2
 requests-mock
-certifi
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements-test.txt b/requirements-test.txt
index 55fe40a..b068b79 100644
--- a/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/requirements-test.txt
@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@
     # via
     #   -r requirements-test.in
     #   requests
-charset-normalizer==3.0.1
-    # via requests
+charset-normalizer==2.1.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements-test.in
+    #   requests
 coverage==7.1.0
     # via -r requirements-test.in
 idna==3.4
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 56415e5..39e61db 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
 # For those usages not covered by the Apache License, Version 2.0 please
 # contact: prithiv.mohan@intel.com or adrian.hoban@intel.com
 aiokafka
+certifi
+cffi
+charset-normalizer<3 # Required by aiohttp in LCM via N2VC
+cryptography
 gnocchiclient
 humanfriendly
 lxml
@@ -33,7 +37,3 @@
 pyyaml==5.4.1 # dependency comes from common
 requests
 six
-cffi
-charset-normalizer
-cryptography
-certifi
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fa3d254..e9ff7b3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
     # via
     #   -r requirements.in
     #   cryptography
-charset-normalizer==3.0.1
+charset-normalizer==2.1.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements.in
     #   requests
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
     #   gnocchiclient
     #   osc-lib
     #   python-neutronclient
-cmd2==2.4.2
+cmd2==2.4.3
     # via cliff
 contourpy==1.0.7
     # via matplotlib
@@ -339,5 +339,5 @@
     # via cmd2
 wrapt==1.14.1
     # via debtcollector
-zipp==3.11.0
+zipp==3.12.0
     # via importlib-metadata