diff --git a/detectors/gcp/go.mod b/detectors/gcp/go.mod
index 12cc53ad19b..278d73fd159 100644
--- a/detectors/gcp/go.mod
+++ b/detectors/gcp/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/detectors/gcp
 go 1.22
 
 require (
-	cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.5.0
+	cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.5.1
 	github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/detectors/gcp v1.24.1
 	github.com/google/go-cmp v0.6.0
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.9.0
diff --git a/detectors/gcp/go.sum b/detectors/gcp/go.sum
index 3ae9870e9f7..2b45a261895 100644
--- a/detectors/gcp/go.sum
+++ b/detectors/gcp/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.5.0 h1:Zr0eK8JbFv6+Wi4ilXAR8FJ3wyNdpxHKJNPos6LTZOY=
-cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.5.0/go.mod h1:aHnloV2TPI38yx4s9+wAZhHykWvVCfu7hQbF+9CWoiY=
+cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.5.1 h1:NM6oZeZNlYjiwYje+sYFjEpP0Q0zCan1bmQW/KmIrGs=
+cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.5.1/go.mod h1:C66sj2AluDcIqakBq/M8lw8/ybHgOZqin2obFxa/E5k=
 github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/detectors/gcp v1.24.1 h1:pB2F2JKCj1Znmp2rwxxt1J0Fg0wezTMgWYk5Mpbi1kg=
 github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/detectors/gcp v1.24.1/go.mod h1:itPGVDKf9cC/ov4MdvJ2QZ0khw4bfoo9jzwTJlaxy2k=
 github.com/creack/pty v1.1.9/go.mod h1:oKZEueFk5CKHvIhNR5MUki03XCEU+Q6VDXinZuGJ33E=