diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index abd3051f..1fbcc81b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
     <!-- Care must be taken when updating the prometheus client lib version
          since we have some custom optimized extensions to this -->
     <prometheus-version>0.9.0</prometheus-version>
-    <bouncycastle-version>1.74</bouncycastle-version>
+    <bouncycastle-version>1.78</bouncycastle-version>
     <junit-version>5.9.3</junit-version>
 
     <zookeeper-version>3.7.2</zookeeper-version>