Error on running db: migrate with Node 18.17.9

[alpha951]

> npx sequelize-cli db:migrate

Sequelize CLI [Node: 18.17.0, CLI: 6.6.0, ORM: 6.31.1]

Loaded configuration file "config/config.json".
Using environment "development".
node:internal/crypto/hash:107
    throw new ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE(
    ^

TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "data" argument must be of type string or an instance of Buffer, TypedArray, or DataView. Received type number (3486)
    at new NodeError (node:internal/errors:405:5)
    at Hash.update (node:internal/crypto/hash:107:11)
    at NativePasswordAuth.encryptSha1Password (/home/keshav/Desktop/backend-sanket/Base-Node-Project-Template/node_modules/mariadb/lib/cmd/handshake/auth/native-password-auth.js:36:23)
    at Handshake.send (/home/keshav/Desktop/backend-sanket/Base-Node-Project-Template/node_modules/mariadb/lib/cmd/handshake/auth/handshake.js:102:40)
    at Handshake.parseHandshakeInit (/home/keshav/Desktop/backend-sanket/Base-Node-Project-Template/node_modules/mariadb/lib/cmd/handshake/auth/handshake.js:69:17)
    at Authentication.onPacketReceive (/home/keshav/Desktop/backend-sanket/Base-Node-Project-Template/node_modules/mariadb/lib/cmd/handshake/authentication.js:32:17)
    at PacketInputStream.receivePacketBasic (/home/keshav/Desktop/backend-sanket/Base-Node-Project-Template/node_modules/mariadb/lib/io/packet-input-stream.js:82:9)
    at PacketInputStream.onData (/home/keshav/Desktop/backend-sanket/Base-Node-Project-Template/node_modules/mariadb/lib/io/packet-input-stream.js:132:20)
    at Socket.emit (node:events:514:28)
    at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:324:12)
    at readableAddChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:297:9)
    at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:234:10)
    at TCP.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:190:23) {
  code: 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE'
}

Node.js v18.17.0

[WikiRik]

The code hasn't reached sequelize yet, and fails when it's still in the mariadb connector. Apart from that this error message does not provide us with enough information to determine what is wrong