diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2edb144addd..34f31542c79 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
     <artifactsToPublish>${project.groupId}:sonar-java-plugin:jar</artifactsToPublish>
 
     <!-- Overrides parent pom to use a more recent version of jacoco -->
-    <version.jacoco.plugin>0.8.15</version.jacoco.plugin>
+    <version.jacoco.plugin>0.8.16</version.jacoco.plugin>
 
     <mockito-core.version>5.24.0</mockito-core.version>
     <test-java-agent-directory>${project.build.directory}/test-java-agent-libs</test-java-agent-directory>