diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e67f3067ec..56fbd219f6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
     <!-- Netty 4.2.x seems to break the serial transports -->
     <netty.version>4.1.123.Final</netty.version>
     <pcap4j.version>1.8.2</pcap4j.version>
-    <slf4j.version>2.0.17</slf4j.version>
+    <slf4j.version>2.0.18</slf4j.version>
     <vavr.version>1.0.1</vavr.version>
     <xmlunit.version>2.11.0</xmlunit.version>