diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a87aae2f0..7469c8506 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>${maven.compiler.source}</maven.compiler.target>
-        <org.mockito.version>5.20.0</org.mockito.version>
+        <org.mockito.version>5.21.0</org.mockito.version>
         <com.vmlens.version>1.2.23</com.vmlens.version>
         <!-- exclusion expression for e2e tests -->
         <testExclusions>**/e2e/*.java</testExclusions>