diff --git a/apps/backend/pom.xml b/apps/backend/pom.xml
index 89d21ed2e..1a42b8b1f 100644
--- a/apps/backend/pom.xml
+++ b/apps/backend/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
         <postgresql.version>42.7.0</postgresql.version>
 
         <!-- transitive versions -->
-        <checker-qual.version>3.40.0</checker-qual.version>
+        <checker-qual.version>3.42.0</checker-qual.version>
         <commons-compress.version>1.25.0</commons-compress.version>
         <commons-io.version>2.15.1</commons-io.version>
         <guava.version>32.1.3-jre</guava.version>