diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index de3b294..9cfcd60 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@
                         <dependency>
                             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                             <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                            <version>8.12</version>
+                            <version>8.18</version>
                         </dependency>
                     </dependencies>
                 </plugin>