diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index c1990977c..09821d676 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ val commonSettings = Seq(
     "com.gu" %% "panda-hmac-play_2-9" % pandaVersion,
     "net.sourceforge.htmlcleaner" % "htmlcleaner" % "2.29",
     "com.scalawilliam" %% "xs4s-core" % "0.9.1",
-    "ch.qos.logback" % "logback-classic" % "1.4.14", // manually overwriting logback-classic to resolve issue in Play framework: https://github.com/playframework/playframework/issues/11499
+    "ch.qos.logback" % "logback-classic" % "1.5.32", // manually overwriting logback-classic to resolve issue in Play framework: https://github.com/playframework/playframework/issues/11499
     // The jackson-module-scala version below must be kept in sync with the
     // transitive dependency on jackson-databind introduced by our AWS
     // dependencies.