diff --git a/src/cli/index.mjs b/src/cli/index.mjs
index 711c094ce..5b64f663b 100644
--- a/src/cli/index.mjs
+++ b/src/cli/index.mjs
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ async function addKnownViolations(pCruiseOptions) {
     const { default: extractKnownViolations } = await import(
       "../config-utl/extract-known-violations.mjs"
     );
-    const lKnownViolations = extractKnownViolations(
+    const lKnownViolations = await extractKnownViolations(
       pCruiseOptions.knownViolationsFile
     );
 
diff --git a/src/config-utl/extract-babel-config.mjs b/src/config-utl/extract-babel-config.mjs
index d8c511096..67f5cf9c7 100644
--- a/src/config-utl/extract-babel-config.mjs
+++ b/src/config-utl/extract-babel-config.mjs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 
 import { extname } from "node:path";
 import json5 from "json5";
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ async function getJSConfig(pBabelConfigFileName) {
   return lReturnValue;
 }
 
-function getJSON5Config(pBabelConfigFileName) {
+async function getJSON5Config(pBabelConfigFileName) {
   let lReturnValue = {};
 
   try {
-    lReturnValue = json5.parse(readFileSync(pBabelConfigFileName, "utf8"));
+    lReturnValue = json5.parse(await readFile(pBabelConfigFileName, "utf8"));
   } catch (pError) {
     throw new Error(
       `Encountered an error while parsing the babel config '${pBabelConfigFileName}':` +
diff --git a/src/config-utl/extract-depcruise-config/read-config.mjs b/src/config-utl/extract-depcruise-config/read-config.mjs
index 8b3be4219..47a6afee8 100644
--- a/src/config-utl/extract-depcruise-config/read-config.mjs
+++ b/src/config-utl/extract-depcruise-config/read-config.mjs
@@ -11,6 +11,5 @@ export default async function readConfig(pAbsolutePathToConfigFile) {
     );
     return config;
   }
-  const lConfig = await readFile(pAbsolutePathToConfigFile, "utf8");
-  return json5.parse(lConfig);
+  return json5.parse(await readFile(pAbsolutePathToConfigFile, "utf8"));
 }
diff --git a/src/config-utl/extract-known-violations.mjs b/src/config-utl/extract-known-violations.mjs
index 620352ca5..ac58ee610 100644
--- a/src/config-utl/extract-known-violations.mjs
+++ b/src/config-utl/extract-known-violations.mjs
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import json5 from "json5";
 import makeAbsolute from "./make-absolute.mjs";
 
-export default function extractKnownViolations(pKnownViolationsFileName) {
+export default async function extractKnownViolations(pKnownViolationsFileName) {
   try {
     return json5.parse(
-      readFileSync(makeAbsolute(pKnownViolationsFileName), "utf8")
+      await readFile(makeAbsolute(pKnownViolationsFileName), "utf8")
     );
   } catch (pError) {
     if (pError instanceof SyntaxError) {
diff --git a/test/config-utl/extract-known-violations.spec.mjs b/test/config-utl/extract-known-violations.spec.mjs
index ac87ebf61..9d5a9f169 100644
--- a/test/config-utl/extract-known-violations.spec.mjs
+++ b/test/config-utl/extract-known-violations.spec.mjs
@@ -8,38 +8,53 @@ describe("[I] config-utl/extractKnownViolations", () => {
     process.chdir(WORKINGDIR);
   });
 
-  it("Throws when passed a non-existing file", () => {
-    expect(() =>
-      extractKnownViolations("this_file_really_does_not_exist")
-    ).to.throw();
+  it("Throws when passed a non-existing file", async () => {
+    let lError = "none";
+
+    try {
+      await extractKnownViolations("this_file_really_does_not_exist");
+    } catch (pError) {
+      lError = pError.toString();
+    }
+    expect(lError).to.contain(`ENOENT: no such file or directory, open`);
+    expect(lError).to.contain("this_file_really_does_not_exist");
   });
 
-  it("Throws a SyntaxError when passed non-json", () => {
+  it("Throws a SyntaxError when passed non-json", async () => {
     process.chdir("./test/config-utl/__mocks__/known-violations");
-    expect(() => extractKnownViolations("this-is-no-json.txt")).to.throw(
-      SyntaxError
-    );
+
+    let lError = "none";
+
+    try {
+      await extractKnownViolations("this-is-no-json.txt");
+    } catch (pError) {
+      lError = pError;
+    }
+
+    expect(lError).to.be.instanceOf(SyntaxError);
   });
 
-  it("Return the parsed json content of the violations file", () => {
+  it("Return the parsed json content of the violations file", async () => {
     process.chdir("./test/config-utl/__mocks__/known-violations");
-    expect(extractKnownViolations("known-violations.json")).to.deep.equal([
-      {
-        from: "src/schema/baseline-violations.schema.js",
-        to: "src/schema/baseline-violations.schema.js",
-        rule: {
-          severity: "error",
-          name: "not-unreachable-from-cli",
+    expect(await extractKnownViolations("known-violations.json")).to.deep.equal(
+      [
+        {
+          from: "src/schema/baseline-violations.schema.js",
+          to: "src/schema/baseline-violations.schema.js",
+          rule: {
+            severity: "error",
+            name: "not-unreachable-from-cli",
+          },
         },
-      },
-      {
-        from: "src/cli/format.js",
-        to: "src/cli/format.js",
-        rule: {
-          severity: "info",
-          name: "not-reachable-from-folder-index",
+        {
+          from: "src/cli/format.js",
+          to: "src/cli/format.js",
+          rule: {
+            severity: "info",
+            name: "not-reachable-from-folder-index",
+          },
         },
-      },
-    ]);
+      ]
+    );
   });
 });