diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 210bee32b..d28576074 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ limitations under the License.
             <dependency>
               <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
               <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-              <version>9.2.1</version>
+              <version>9.3</version>
             </dependency>
             <!-- MCHECKSTYLE-327: the maven_checks.xml was moved to a shared project -->
             <dependency>