diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 53aee992..31220806 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
     <!-- DON'T BUMP to 3.3.0 -->
     <!-- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSOURCES-143?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17755616#comment-17755616 -->
     <version.maven-source-plugin>3.3.1</version.maven-source-plugin>
-    <version.maven-surefire-plugin>3.5.2</version.maven-surefire-plugin>
+    <version.maven-surefire-plugin>3.5.4</version.maven-surefire-plugin>
     <version.slf4j>2.0.17</version.slf4j>
     <version.test-containers>1.20.3</version.test-containers>
     <version.test-containers-kind>1.4.9</version.test-containers-kind>