diff --git a/springboot/bom/pom.xml b/springboot/bom/pom.xml
index f314e002ea7..c4163f0ceaf 100644
--- a/springboot/bom/pom.xml
+++ b/springboot/bom/pom.xml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     <version.org.springdoc>2.3.0</version.org.springdoc>
     <!-- Groovy -->
     <!-- must be aligned with the Archetype plugin: https://maven.apache.org/archetype/maven-archetype-plugin/dependencies.html -->
-    <version.org.codehaus.groovy>2.4.16</version.org.codehaus.groovy>
+    <version.org.codehaus.groovy>2.4.21</version.org.codehaus.groovy>
     <version.org.spockframework>1.3-groovy-2.4</version.org.spockframework>
     <!-- Spring Boot Cloud aligned with Spring Boot Framework version. See: https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud -->
     <!-- https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-release/wiki/Spring-Cloud-2022.0-Release-Notes -->