diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index eab875784..2f2d490e7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
             <!-- used so that lombok can generate suppressions for spotbugs. It needs to find it on the relevant classpath -->
             <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
             <artifactId>spotbugs</artifactId>
-            <version>4.8.6</version>
+            <version>4.9.3</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
 
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@
                             <dependency>
                                 <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
                                 <artifactId>spotbugs</artifactId>
-                                <version>4.9.0</version>
+                                <version>4.9.3</version>
                             </dependency>
                         </dependencies>
                         <executions>