diff --git a/test/images/Makefile b/test/images/Makefile
index 9c6538f99d67c..d24edbd8ddb40 100644
--- a/test/images/Makefile
+++ b/test/images/Makefile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 REGISTRY ?= registry.k8s.io/e2e-test-images
 GOARM ?= 7
 DOCKER_CERT_BASE_PATH ?=
-QEMUVERSION=v5.1.0-2
+QEMUVERSION=v7.1.0-2
 GOLANG_VERSION=1.19.2
 export
 
diff --git a/test/images/node-perf/tf-wide-deep/BASEIMAGE b/test/images/node-perf/tf-wide-deep/BASEIMAGE
index cc179e93e639e..5d9f9f8430a08 100644
--- a/test/images/node-perf/tf-wide-deep/BASEIMAGE
+++ b/test/images/node-perf/tf-wide-deep/BASEIMAGE
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-linux/amd64=python:3.6-slim-stretch
-linux/arm64=arm64v8/python:3.6-slim-stretch
+linux/amd64=python:3.6-slim-buster
+linux/arm64=arm64v8/python:3.6-slim-buster
diff --git a/test/images/node-perf/tf-wide-deep/VERSION b/test/images/node-perf/tf-wide-deep/VERSION
index 5625e59da8873..7e32cd56983e6 100644
--- a/test/images/node-perf/tf-wide-deep/VERSION
+++ b/test/images/node-perf/tf-wide-deep/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.2
+1.3