diff --git a/cmd/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen.go b/cmd/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen.go
index f45eb40f5..f746bf23b 100644
--- a/cmd/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen.go
+++ b/cmd/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen.go
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"runtime/debug"
 	"strings"
 
-	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
 
 	"github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen/v2/pkg/codegen"
 	"github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen/v2/pkg/util"
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 3c21deac7..510a39217 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.9.0
 	golang.org/x/text v0.15.0
 	golang.org/x/tools v0.21.0
-	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
 )
 
 require (
@@ -22,5 +22,4 @@ require (
 	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 // indirect
 	github.com/ugorji/go/codec v1.2.11 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/mod v0.17.0 // indirect
-	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index cb3039b39..00c132459 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ golang.org/x/tools v0.21.0 h1:qc0xYgIbsSDt9EyWz05J5wfa7LOVW0YTLOXrqdLAWIw=
 golang.org/x/tools v0.21.0/go.mod h1:aiJjzUbINMkxbQROHiO6hDPo2LHcIPhhQsa9DLh0yGk=
 gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405/go.mod h1:Co6ibVJAznAaIkqp8huTwlJQCZ016jof/cbN4VW5Yz0=
 gopkg.in/check.v1 v1.0.0-20201130134442-10cb98267c6c h1:Hei/4ADfdWqJk1ZMxUNpqntNwaWcugrBjAiHlqqRiVk=
-gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0 h1:D8xgwECY7CYvx+Y2n4sBz93Jn9JRvxdiyyo8CTfuKaY=
-gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0/go.mod h1:RDklbk79AGWmwhnvt/jBztapEOGDOx6ZbXqjP6csGnQ=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 h1:fxVm/GzAzEWqLHuvctI91KS9hhNmmWOoWu0XTYJS7CA=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=