diff --git a/src/Bicep.Cli.E2eTests/src/local/jsonrpc.test.ts b/src/Bicep.Cli.E2eTests/src/local/jsonrpc.test.ts
index 08af3933548..fc1289cea6f 100644
--- a/src/Bicep.Cli.E2eTests/src/local/jsonrpc.test.ts
+++ b/src/Bicep.Cli.E2eTests/src/local/jsonrpc.test.ts
@@ -18,10 +18,11 @@ import {
 
 describe("bicep jsonrpc", () => {
   let connection: MessageConnection;
+  const connectionSetupTimeoutMs = 60000;
 
-  beforeAll(async () => (connection = await openConnection()));
+  beforeAll(async () => (connection = await openConnection()), connectionSetupTimeoutMs);
 
-  afterAll(() => connection.dispose());
+  afterAll(() => connection?.dispose());
 
   it("should return a version number", async () => {
     const result = await version(connection);
diff --git a/src/Directory.Packages.props b/src/Directory.Packages.props
index 1d878bff84a..3c99694d303 100644
--- a/src/Directory.Packages.props
+++ b/src/Directory.Packages.props
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
     <PackageVersion Include="OrasProject.Oras" Version="0.5.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="PublicApiGenerator" Version="11.5.4" />
     <PackageVersion Include="RichardSzalay.MockHttp" Version="7.0.0" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Sarif.Sdk" Version="5.4.3" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="Sarif.Sdk" Version="5.5.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Semver" Version="3.0.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Serilog.Extensions.Hosting" Version="10.0.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Serilog.Sinks.Console" Version="6.1.1" />