Upgrade json-jwt gem to fix vulnerabilities.

[skumarp7]

Hi team,

Our security scans of splunk/fluent-plugin-splunk-hec have reported vulnerabilities on json-jwt:1.15.0 .
What would you like to be added:

Upgrade to fixed version of json-jwt to mitigate this vulnerability

Affected gem: json-jwt
Severity: High
Fixed version: 1.16.3

CVE-2023-51774: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-51774

Why is this needed:

To remove the vulnerability

Please let me know if i can raise a PR to fix this.

[skumarp7]

Hi,
Please let me know if i can raise a PR to mitigate this vulnerablity.