diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 86e273e3c59..35ae8a828f7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Brotli, Zstandard and ar, cpio, jar, tar, zip, dump, 7z, arj.
     <commons.rc.version>RC1</commons.rc.version>
     <!-- old version used by japicmp -->
     <commons.bc.version>1.21</commons.bc.version>
-    <mockito.version>4.8.0</mockito.version>
+    <mockito.version>4.9.0</mockito.version>
     <commons.pmd.version>3.19.0</commons.pmd.version>
     <commons.pmd-impl.version>6.50.0</commons.pmd-impl.version>