diff --git a/apps/backend/pom.xml b/apps/backend/pom.xml
index 0468e3eeb..77435c96b 100644
--- a/apps/backend/pom.xml
+++ b/apps/backend/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
         <msal4j.version>1.14.3</msal4j.version>
 
         <!-- transitive versions -->
-        <checker-qual.version>3.42.0</checker-qual.version>
+        <checker-qual.version>3.44.0</checker-qual.version>
         <commons-compress.version>1.26.0</commons-compress.version>
         <commons-io.version>2.16.1</commons-io.version>
         <guava.version>33.1.0-jre</guava.version>