Unable to deploy the using cloudformation SAR method of deployment ( Tried with > 1.6.0 even with latest )

**Description:**

Main stack fails with the following msg
=>
Embedded stack arn:aws:cloudformation:eu-central-1:1234567890:stack/serverlessrepo-elastic-serverless-forwarder-ElasticServerlessForwarderApplication-BNALYHMJ1J0Q/66afb100-21b6-11f0-9fb5-06f0ca99d249 was not successfully created: Received malformed response from transform 1234567890::elastic-serverless-forwarder-macro

Nested Stack 1 (serverlessrepo-elastic-serverless-forwarder-ElasticServerlessForwarderApplication-BNALYHMJ1J0Q) fails with this error
=>
Received malformed response from transform 425014014036::elastic-serverless-forwarder-macro

Nested Stack 3 (serverlessrepo-elastic-serverless-forwarder-ElasticServerlessForwarderEventMacro-JNP3J9FB21AR) initiate a delete

**Expected behaviour**

Stack in CREATE_COMPLETE with resources deployed

**Current Behaviour:**

Stack is failing as described in the description of the issue

**Reproducing steps**

The template that I am using
Tried semantic versions > 1.6.0 and even tried the latest one

**PreRequisite:**
An s3 bucket with the configuration file
A log group that can be provided in the parameters

**To reproduce, deploy it using this command**
aws cloudformation deploy --template-file template.yaml --stack-name esf-cloudformation-deployment --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM CAPABILITY_AUTO_EXPAND

template.yaml
`
# aws cloudformation deploy --template-file template.yaml --stack-name esf-cloudformation-deployment --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM CAPABILITY_AUTO_EXPAND

Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Resources:
SarCloudformationDeployment:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Application
Properties:
Location:
ApplicationId: 'arn:aws:serverlessrepo:eu-central-1:267093732750:applications/elastic-serverless-forwarder'
SemanticVersion: '1.7.0' ## SET TO CORRECT SEMANTIC VERSION (MUST BE GREATER THAN 1.6.0)
Parameters:
ElasticServerlessForwarderS3ConfigFile: "s3://aws-elastic-forwarder-config-425014014036/config.yaml"
ElasticServerlessForwarderCloudWatchLogsEvents: "/aws/lambda/testForwarderLambada"`