diff --git a/buildSrc/build.gradle b/buildSrc/build.gradle
index b984ef3800490..e4e701c7adc96 100644
--- a/buildSrc/build.gradle
+++ b/buildSrc/build.gradle
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ dependencies {
   api 'com.netflix.nebula:gradle-extra-configurations-plugin:10.0.0'
   api 'com.netflix.nebula:nebula-publishing-plugin:21.0.0'
   api 'com.netflix.nebula:gradle-info-plugin:12.1.6'
-  api 'org.apache.rat:apache-rat:0.15'
+  api 'org.apache.rat:apache-rat:0.16.1'
   api "commons-io:commons-io:${props.getProperty('commonsio')}"
   api "net.java.dev.jna:jna:5.14.0"
   api 'com.github.johnrengelman:shadow:8.1.1'