diff --git a/bom/application/pom.xml b/bom/application/pom.xml
index 730c341f832b5..3df2731062301 100644
--- a/bom/application/pom.xml
+++ b/bom/application/pom.xml
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
         <keycloak.version>19.0.2</keycloak.version>
         <logstash-gelf.version>1.15.0</logstash-gelf.version>
         <checker-qual.version>3.25.0</checker-qual.version>
-        <error-prone-annotations.version>2.15.0</error-prone-annotations.version>
+        <error-prone-annotations.version>2.16</error-prone-annotations.version>
         <jib-core.version>0.22.0</jib-core.version>
         <google-http-client.version>1.42.2</google-http-client.version>
         <scram-client.version>2.1</scram-client.version>