diff --git a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
index 28ebd1af0..383069fed 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
+++ b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ARG VARIANT="20-bookworm"
 FROM mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/javascript-node:1-${VARIANT}
 
-# Install 20.3.0 version of Node.js using nvm
-ARG EXTRA_NODE_VERSION="20.3.0"
+# Install 20.18.0 version of Node.js using nvm
+ARG EXTRA_NODE_VERSION="20.18.0"
 RUN su node -c "source /usr/local/share/nvm/nvm.sh && nvm install ${EXTRA_NODE_VERSION}"
 
 ## install emscripten
diff --git a/.nvmrc b/.nvmrc
index 4adfbc353..2a393af59 100644
--- a/.nvmrc
+++ b/.nvmrc
@@ -1 +1 @@
-20.3.0
+20.18.0
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 7a7b8a286..0f005dea8 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM node:20.3.0-bookworm
+FROM node:20.18.0-bookworm
 
 # use bash as default shell
 SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-c"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ede6f80e7..dac4e6229 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ ApiDOM Playground is available at [https://swagger-api.github.io/apidom/](https:
 This is a monorepo for all ApiDOM packages. All the code is written in [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/).
 All the information necessary for working with monorepo can be found in this [article](https://vladimirgorej.com/blog/things-i-have-learned-maintaining-javascript-monorepo-with-lerna/).
 
-Assuming [prerequisites](#prerequisites) are already installed, [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) `>=20.3.0` and `npm >=9.6.7`
+Assuming [prerequisites](#prerequisites) are already installed, [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) `>=20.18.0 <21` and `npm >=10.8.2`
 are the minimum required versions that this repo runs on, but we recommend using the latest version of Node.js@20.
 
 ### Setting up
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 0f5021386..6ba821037 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@
         "webpack-cli": "=5.1.4"
       },
       "engines": {
-        "node": "=20.3.0",
-        "npm": ">=9.6.7"
+        "node": "=20.18.0",
+        "npm": ">=10.8.2"
       }
     },
     "node_modules/@adobe/css-tools": {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 12727e381..8611fedf4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "engines": {
-    "node": "=20.3.0",
-    "npm": ">=9.6.7"
+    "node": "=20.18.0",
+    "npm": ">=10.8.2"
   },
   "comments": {
     "scripts": {