diff --git a/data-prepper-plugins/kafka-plugins/build.gradle b/data-prepper-plugins/kafka-plugins/build.gradle
index 96d8cc1c64..7c7bab08c0 100644
--- a/data-prepper-plugins/kafka-plugins/build.gradle
+++ b/data-prepper-plugins/kafka-plugins/build.gradle
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:kafka'
     implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:kms'
     implementation 'software.amazon.msk:aws-msk-iam-auth:2.0.3'
-    implementation 'software.amazon.glue:schema-registry-serde:1.1.15'
+    implementation 'software.amazon.glue:schema-registry-serde:1.1.18'
     implementation 'io.confluent:kafka-json-schema-serializer:7.4.0'
     implementation project(':data-prepper-plugins:failures-common')
     implementation 'com.github.fge:json-schema-validator:2.2.14'