Could not perform Node Audit analysis

My team has been working over the last couple of days to understand why this error is being thrown in our Jenkins build pipeline:

[2021-10-08T18:09:32.862Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Checking for updates
[2021-10-08T18:09:32.869Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Skipping NVD check since last check was within 4 hours.
[2021-10-08T18:09:32.958Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Check for updates complete (96 ms)
[2021-10-08T18:09:33.112Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] 
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[2021-10-08T18:09:33.112Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Analysis Started
[2021-10-08T18:09:33.117Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Finished Archive Analyzer (0 seconds)
[2021-10-08T18:09:33.125Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Finished File Name Analyzer (0 seconds)
[2021-10-08T18:09:33.127Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Finished Dependency Merging Analyzer (0 seconds)
[2021-10-08T18:09:33.131Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Finished Version Filter Analyzer (0 seconds)
[2021-10-08T18:09:33.239Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Finished Hint Analyzer (0 seconds)
[2021-10-08T18:09:33.245Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Finished False Positive Analyzer (0 seconds)
[2021-10-08T18:09:33.248Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Finished NVD CVE Analyzer (0 seconds)
[2021-10-08T18:09:33.250Z] [DependencyCheck] [WARN] The Node Package Analyzer has been disabled; the resulting report will only contain the known vulnerable dependency - not a bill of materials for the node project.
[2021-10-08T18:09:33.687Z] [DependencyCheck] [WARN] dependency skipped: package.json contain an alias for vue-loader-v16 => vue-loader@16.8.1 npm audit doesn't support aliases
[2021-10-08T18:09:34.336Z] [DependencyCheck] [ERROR] NodeAuditAnalyzer failed on /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/NL_ui-components_PR-280/package-lock.json
[2021-10-08T18:09:34.336Z] [DependencyCheck] [WARN] An error occurred while analyzing '/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/NL_ui-components_PR-280/package-lock.json' (Node Audit Analyzer).
[2021-10-08T18:09:34.336Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Finished Node Audit Analyzer (1 seconds)
[2021-10-08T18:09:34.337Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Finished Sonatype OSS Index Analyzer (0 seconds)
[2021-10-08T18:09:34.465Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Finished Vulnerability Suppression Analyzer (0 seconds)
[2021-10-08T18:09:34.465Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Finished Dependency Bundling Analyzer (0 seconds)
[2021-10-08T18:09:34.477Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Analysis Complete (1 seconds)
[2021-10-08T18:09:34.581Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Writing report to: /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/NL_ui-components_PR-280/analysis/dependency-check-report.xml
[2021-10-08T18:09:34.719Z] [DependencyCheck] [INFO] Writing report to: /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/NL_ui-components_PR-280/analysis/dependency-check-report.html
[2021-10-08T18:09:35.107Z] [DependencyCheck] [ERROR] Could not perform Node Audit analysis. Invalid payload submitted to Node Audit API.

I have attached the package.json file and the package-lock.json file for this project in the issue. Can you give me some guidance on what could be causing the above issue, and how to fix it, given this information? dependency check attachments - package and package-lock.zip