diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
index 4dbd259147..aacc3cf015 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
       <artifactId>byte-buddy</artifactId>
-      <version>1.17.8</version>
+      <version>1.18.1</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>