diff --git a/detectors/gcp/go.mod b/detectors/gcp/go.mod
index fcbafa3fac1..2f1fd1a20ca 100644
--- a/detectors/gcp/go.mod
+++ b/detectors/gcp/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/detectors/gcp
 go 1.21
 
 require (
-	cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.3.0
+	cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.4.0
 	github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/detectors/gcp v1.24.0
 	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 2c97c57b88c..312188e2cc6 100644
--- a/detectors/gcp/go.sum
+++ b/detectors/gcp/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.3.0 h1:Tz+eQXMEqDIKRsmY3cHTL6FVaynIjX2QxYC4trgAKZc=
-cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.3.0/go.mod h1:zFmK7XCadkQkj6TtorcaGlCW1hT1fIilQDwofLpJ20k=
+cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.4.0 h1:vHzJCWaM4g8XIcm8kopr3XmDA4Gy/lblD3EhhSux05c=
+cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.4.0/go.mod h1:SIQh1Kkb4ZJ8zJ874fqVkslA29PRXuleyj6vOzlbK7M=
 github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/detectors/gcp v1.24.0 h1:N4xzkSD2BkRwEZSPf3C2eUZxjS5trpo4gOwRh8mu+BA=
 github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/detectors/gcp v1.24.0/go.mod h1:p2puVVSKjQ84Qb1gzw2XHLs34WQyHTYFZLaVxypAFYs=
 github.com/creack/pty v1.1.9/go.mod h1:oKZEueFk5CKHvIhNR5MUki03XCEU+Q6VDXinZuGJ33E=