diff --git a/fips-pom.xml b/fips-pom.xml
index e6fae03b..adcfeeec 100644
--- a/fips-pom.xml
+++ b/fips-pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
         <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
-        <scala.version>2.12.11</scala.version>
+        <scala.version>2.12.18</scala.version>
         <scala.compat.version>2.12</scala.compat.version>
         <spec2.version>4.2.0</spec2.version>
         <snowflake.jdbc.version>3.14.1</snowflake.jdbc.version>