diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b5dd764327e4..3e8e8c54ce2f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
     "optionator": "^0.9.1",
     "regexpp": "^3.2.0",
     "strip-ansi": "^6.0.1",
-    "strip-json-comments": "^3.1.0",
+    "strip-json-comments": "^5.0.1",
     "text-table": "^0.2.0",
     "v8-compile-cache": "^2.0.3"
   },