diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 45d89d3615..475ad4e9db 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@
                 <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
             </activation>
             <properties>
-                <scala.version>2.13.8</scala.version>
+                <scala.version>2.13.12</scala.version>
                 <scala.compat.version>2.13</scala.compat.version>
                 <scaladoc.arg>-no-java-comments</scaladoc.arg>
                 <!-- Skip deploying parent module for Scala 2.13 profile, it will be deployed with 2.12 -->