diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index b5fe6934f..77118f2ea 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ group :development, :test do
   gem "capybara", "~> 3.35.3" # Capybara is an integration testing tool for rack based web applications
   gem "cypress-rails", "~> 0.4.2" # For end to end tests (E2E)
   gem "dotenv-rails", "~> 2.7.6" # For loading ENV variables locally
-  gem "faker", "~> 2.16" # A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers
+  gem "faker", "~> 2.17" # A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers
   gem "knapsack_pro", "~> 2.11.0" # Help parallelize Ruby spec builds
   gem "pry-byebug", "~> 3.8" # Combine 'pry' with 'byebug'. Adds 'step', 'next', 'finish', 'continue' and 'break' commands to control execution
   gem "rspec-rails", "~> 5.0" # rspec-rails is a testing framework for Rails 3+
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 5e09e7517..b0cc136c3 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ GEM
     factory_bot_rails (6.1.0)
       factory_bot (~> 6.1.0)
       railties (>= 5.0.0)
-    faker (2.16.0)
+    faker (2.17.0)
       i18n (>= 1.6, < 2)
     faraday (1.3.0)
       faraday-net_http (~> 1.0)
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   erb_lint!
   exifr (>= 1.3.6)
   factory_bot_rails (~> 6.1)
-  faker (~> 2.16)
+  faker (~> 2.17)
   fastly (~> 3.0)
   feedjira (~> 3.1)
   field_test (~> 0.4)
diff --git a/vendor/cache/faker-2.16.0.gem b/vendor/cache/faker-2.16.0.gem
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