diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
index 8ca79d2eb5..fb29c63e88 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.json</groupId>
       <artifactId>json</artifactId>
-      <version>20230227</version>
+      <version>20230618</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>