diff --git a/web3.js/package-lock.json b/web3.js/package-lock.json
index 54967ed08e8287..7129a5ea48e209 100644
--- a/web3.js/package-lock.json
+++ b/web3.js/package-lock.json
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@commitlint/config-conventional/-/config-conventional-17.0.2.tgz",
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-      "dependencies": {
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-      "version": "7.3.7",
-      "extraneous": true,
-      "inBundle": true,
-      "license": "ISC",
-      "dependencies": {
-        "lru-cache": "^6.0.0"
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-      "bin": {
-        "semver": "bin/semver.js"
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@@ -19664,12 +19635,12 @@
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-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@commitlint/config-conventional/-/config-conventional-15.0.0.tgz",
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@commitlint/config-conventional/-/config-conventional-17.0.2.tgz",
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-        "conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits": "^4.3.1"
+        "conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits": "^5.0.0"
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     "@commitlint/config-validator": {
@@ -22183,9 +22154,9 @@
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+      "version": "5.0.0",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits/-/conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits-5.0.0.tgz",
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-              "bundled": true,
-              "extraneous": true,
-              "requires": {
-                "yallist": "^4.0.0"
-              }
-            },
-            "semver": {
-              "version": "7.3.7",
-              "bundled": true,
-              "extraneous": true,
-              "requires": {
-                "lru-cache": "^6.0.0"
-              }
-            }
-          }
+          "dev": true
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diff --git a/web3.js/package.json b/web3.js/package.json
index ed39b4f823e0d4..b37d6159dd9503 100644
--- a/web3.js/package.json
+++ b/web3.js/package.json
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
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     "@babel/preset-typescript": "^7.12.16",
     "@babel/register": "^7.12.13",
-    "@commitlint/config-conventional": "^15.0.0",
+    "@commitlint/config-conventional": "^17.0.2",
     "@commitlint/travis-cli": "^17.0.0",
     "@rollup/plugin-alias": "^3.1.9",
     "@rollup/plugin-babel": "^5.2.3",
diff --git a/web3.js/yarn.lock b/web3.js/yarn.lock
index 0b45b9191bb4c0..c6979fea75118a 100644
--- a/web3.js/yarn.lock
+++ b/web3.js/yarn.lock
@@ -935,11 +935,12 @@
     resolve-global "1.0.0"
     yargs "^17.0.0"
 
-"@commitlint/config-conventional@^15.0.0":
-  version "15.0.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/@commitlint/config-conventional/-/config-conventional-15.0.0.tgz"
+"@commitlint/config-conventional@^17.0.2":
+  version "17.0.2"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@commitlint/config-conventional/-/config-conventional-17.0.2.tgz#298c9076e25c1e8760f04ee1be8ce43c856a4b72"
+  integrity sha512-MfP0I/JbxKkzo+HXWB7B3WstGS4BiniotU3d3xQ9gK8cR0DbeZ4MuyGCWF65YDyrcDTS3WlrJ3ndSPA1pqhoPw==
   dependencies:
-    conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits "^4.3.1"
+    conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits "^5.0.0"
 
 "@commitlint/config-validator@^17.0.0":
   version "17.0.0"
@@ -2817,9 +2818,10 @@ conventional-changelog-angular@^5.0.0, conventional-changelog-angular@^5.0.11:
     compare-func "^2.0.0"
     q "^1.5.1"
 
-conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits@^4.3.1:
-  version "4.6.3"
-  resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits/-/conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits-4.6.3.tgz"
+conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits@^5.0.0:
+  version "5.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits/-/conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits-5.0.0.tgz#41bdce54eb65a848a4a3ffdca93e92fa22b64a86"
+  integrity sha512-lCDbA+ZqVFQGUj7h9QBKoIpLhl8iihkO0nCTyRNzuXtcd7ubODpYB04IFy31JloiJgG0Uovu8ot8oxRzn7Nwtw==
   dependencies:
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     lodash "^4.17.15"