diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4660a4c1f3..a9e0be81fb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Main (unreleased)
 
 ### Bugfixes
 
+- Update windows_exporter from v0.27.2 vo v0.27.3: (@jkroepke)
+  - Fixes a bug where scraping Windows service crashes alloy
+
 - Update yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter from v0.60.0 vo v0.61.0: (@morremeyer)
   - Fixes a bug where cloudwatch S3 metrics are reported as `0`
 
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 29ff8955fd..6ccb723151 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/prometheus-community/elasticsearch_exporter v1.5.0
 	github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter v0.11.1
 	github.com/prometheus-community/stackdriver_exporter v0.15.1
-	github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter v0.27.2
+	github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter v0.27.3
 	github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator v0.66.0
 	github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring v0.66.0
 	github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/client v0.66.0
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/Azure/go-autorest/logger v0.2.1 // indirect
 	github.com/Azure/go-autorest/tracing v0.6.0 // indirect
 	github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-go v1.2.2 // indirect
-	github.com/BurntSushi/toml v1.3.2 // indirect
+	github.com/BurntSushi/toml v1.3.2
 	github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-go v1.5.4 // indirect
 	github.com/Code-Hex/go-generics-cache v1.5.1 // indirect
 	github.com/DataDog/agent-payload/v5 v5.0.131 // indirect
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 9ab9db39af..4140e2242d 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -2122,8 +2122,8 @@ github.com/prometheus-community/prom-label-proxy v0.6.0 h1:vRY29tUex8qI2MEimovTz
 github.com/prometheus-community/prom-label-proxy v0.6.0/go.mod h1:XyAyskjjhqEx0qnbGUVeAkYSz3Wm9gStT7/wXFxD8n0=
 github.com/prometheus-community/stackdriver_exporter v0.15.1 h1:+k26zeBy8BlG+eDKPtYA7IKXrQCI7ISLfktjIUu7wBQ=
 github.com/prometheus-community/stackdriver_exporter v0.15.1/go.mod h1:UmmIgnrVQqDAeM8pSeYntBcUxPhp8oqb8W3nvRYzsSg=
-github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter v0.27.2 h1:/tdRTouPMVsC4qt8+s9NOPEm7L/9qdDxmasiETlx+Wk=
-github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter v0.27.2/go.mod h1:8+T6hfv71nvgVIzguouXkIGoa15ni+uXHHULBOA2bZo=
+github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter v0.27.3 h1:L5Dc4gqc3477Y6jaVHhkm25jysqbxg1ajMyPbmnqScw=
+github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter v0.27.3/go.mod h1:8+T6hfv71nvgVIzguouXkIGoa15ni+uXHHULBOA2bZo=
 github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator v0.66.0 h1:Jj4mbGAkfBbTih6ait03f2vUjEHB7Kb4gnlAmWu7AJ0=
 github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator v0.66.0/go.mod h1:U7S3+u6YTxwCTMNIQxZWttEq70qBA4Qps7/c5mUZOpQ=
 github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring v0.66.0 h1:PPW01FLVjJHMNcbAL1DDD9EZceSQKMOU/VpK0irrxrI=