diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3bcf2382aa5..ae696e63fa0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
     <!-- The currently available version is 2.0.5 and anything above 1.4.3 is no longer compatible with our code -->
     <bit-io.version>1.4.3</bit-io.version>
     <bouncycastle.version>1.70</bouncycastle.version>
-    <byte-buddy.version>1.12.19</byte-buddy.version>
+    <byte-buddy.version>1.12.20</byte-buddy.version>
     <!-- Be sure to keep this version set to the version of the cmake-maven-plugin -->
     <cmake-version>3.22.1</cmake-version>
     <commons-beanutils.version>1.9.4</commons-beanutils.version>