diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yaml b/.github/dependabot.yaml
index 1af1fdc9fdcc5..b6b233293f70c 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yaml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yaml
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ updates:
       - dependency-name: github.com/mholt/archiver
       - dependency-name: github.com/prometheus/client_golang
       - dependency-name: github.com/spf13/cast
-      - dependency-name: github.com/ugorji/go
       # Ignore internal modules
       - dependency-name: github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/*
       # Ignore golang.org/x/... deps to avoid noise, they are updated together, pretty regularly
diff --git a/comp/forwarder/orchestrator/orchestratorinterface/go.mod b/comp/forwarder/orchestrator/orchestratorinterface/go.mod
index 77d79402af77c..14fea80182ecd 100644
--- a/comp/forwarder/orchestrator/orchestratorinterface/go.mod
+++ b/comp/forwarder/orchestrator/orchestratorinterface/go.mod
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ replace (
 	github.com/cihub/seelog => github.com/cihub/seelog v0.0.0-20151216151435-d2c6e5aa9fbf // v2.6
 	github.com/coreos/go-systemd => github.com/coreos/go-systemd v0.0.0-20180202092358-40e2722dffea
 	github.com/spf13/cast => github.com/DataDog/cast v1.8.0
-	github.com/ugorji/go => github.com/ugorji/go v1.1.7
 )
 
 require (
diff --git a/comp/forwarder/orchestrator/orchestratorinterface/go.sum b/comp/forwarder/orchestrator/orchestratorinterface/go.sum
index 997b317049db8..d76e47bf0eac5 100644
--- a/comp/forwarder/orchestrator/orchestratorinterface/go.sum
+++ b/comp/forwarder/orchestrator/orchestratorinterface/go.sum
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ github.com/tklauser/numcpus v0.8.0 h1:Mx4Wwe/FjZLeQsK/6kt2EOepwwSl7SmJrK5bV/dXYg
 github.com/tklauser/numcpus v0.8.0/go.mod h1:ZJZlAY+dmR4eut8epnzf0u/VwodKmryxR8txiloSqBE=
 github.com/tmc/grpc-websocket-proxy v0.0.0-20190109142713-0ad062ec5ee5/go.mod h1:ncp9v5uamzpCO7NfCPTXjqaC+bZgJeR0sMTm6dMHP7U=
 github.com/tmc/grpc-websocket-proxy v0.0.0-20200122045848-3419fae592fc/go.mod h1:ncp9v5uamzpCO7NfCPTXjqaC+bZgJeR0sMTm6dMHP7U=
+github.com/ugorji/go v1.1.4/go.mod h1:uQMGLiO92mf5W77hV/PUCpI3pbzQx3CRekS0kk+RGrc=
 github.com/ugorji/go v1.1.7/go.mod h1:kZn38zHttfInRq0xu/PH0az30d+z6vm202qpg1oXVMw=
 github.com/ugorji/go/codec v1.1.7/go.mod h1:Ax+UKWsSmolVDwsd+7N3ZtXu+yMGCf907BLYF3GoBXY=
 github.com/xiang90/probing v0.0.0-20190116061207-43a291ad63a2/go.mod h1:UETIi67q53MR2AWcXfiuqkDkRtnGDLqkBTpCHuJHxtU=
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index f91cef9154070..e07d7272bbeb1 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ replace (
 	github.com/cihub/seelog => github.com/cihub/seelog v0.0.0-20151216151435-d2c6e5aa9fbf // v2.6
 	github.com/coreos/go-systemd => github.com/coreos/go-systemd v0.0.0-20180202092358-40e2722dffea
 	github.com/spf13/cast => github.com/DataDog/cast v1.8.0
-	github.com/ugorji/go => github.com/ugorji/go v1.1.7
 )
 
 replace (
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 8c8de36f10927..5dc6d59d70515 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1959,7 +1959,9 @@ github.com/twmb/murmur3 v1.1.8 h1:8Yt9taO/WN3l08xErzjeschgZU2QSrwm1kclYq+0aRg=
 github.com/twmb/murmur3 v1.1.8/go.mod h1:Qq/R7NUyOfr65zD+6Q5IHKsJLwP7exErjN6lyyq3OSQ=
 github.com/ua-parser/uap-go v0.0.0-20240611065828-3a4781585db6 h1:SIKIoA4e/5Y9ZOl0DCe3eVMLPOQzJxgZpfdHHeauNTM=
 github.com/ua-parser/uap-go v0.0.0-20240611065828-3a4781585db6/go.mod h1:BUbeWZiieNxAuuADTBNb3/aeje6on3DhU3rpWsQSB1E=
+github.com/ugorji/go v1.1.4/go.mod h1:uQMGLiO92mf5W77hV/PUCpI3pbzQx3CRekS0kk+RGrc=
 github.com/ugorji/go v1.1.7/go.mod h1:kZn38zHttfInRq0xu/PH0az30d+z6vm202qpg1oXVMw=
+github.com/ugorji/go v1.2.7/go.mod h1:nF9osbDWLy6bDVv/Rtoh6QgnvNDpmCalQV5urGCCS6M=
 github.com/ugorji/go/codec v1.1.7/go.mod h1:Ax+UKWsSmolVDwsd+7N3ZtXu+yMGCf907BLYF3GoBXY=
 github.com/ugorji/go/codec v1.2.7/go.mod h1:WGN1fab3R1fzQlVQTkfxVtIBhWDRqOviHU95kRgeqEY=
 github.com/ugorji/go/codec v1.2.11 h1:BMaWp1Bb6fHwEtbplGBGJ498wD+LKlNSl25MjdZY4dU=