diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b2bcc499..c5ad7000 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
         <jacoco-maven-plugin.version>0.8.15</jacoco-maven-plugin.version>
         <!-- byte-buddy-agent version must match what mockito-core pulls in transitively.
              Update this when bumping mockito.version (run: mvn dependency:tree -pl reader | grep byte-buddy-agent). -->
-        <bytebuddy.version>1.18.15</bytebuddy.version>
+        <bytebuddy.version>1.18.16</bytebuddy.version>
         <!-- Generated sources (FlatBuffers + Protobuf) live under fbs/ and proto/. They
              are emitted by external code-gen and have no hand-written behavior worth
              covering; counting them tanks the project-wide coverage ratio without