diff --git a/bom/application/pom.xml b/bom/application/pom.xml
index 40da198e2cf5f..c3e7a8a8e9e43 100644
--- a/bom/application/pom.xml
+++ b/bom/application/pom.xml
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
         <quarkus-spring-data-api.version>2.1.SP2</quarkus-spring-data-api.version>
         <quarkus-spring-security-api.version>5.4.Final</quarkus-spring-security-api.version>
         <quarkus-spring-boot-api.version>2.1.SP1</quarkus-spring-boot-api.version>
-        <mockito.version>5.2.0</mockito.version>
+        <mockito.version>5.3.1</mockito.version>
         <jna.version>5.8.0</jna.version><!-- should satisfy both testcontainers and mongodb -->
         <antlr.version>4.10.1</antlr.version><!-- needs to align with same property in build-parent/pom.xml -->
         <quarkus-security.version>2.0.2.Final</quarkus-security.version>
diff --git a/extensions/amazon-lambda-http/runtime/pom.xml b/extensions/amazon-lambda-http/runtime/pom.xml
index c0e4e7edd81ea..b9634486b6ea1 100644
--- a/extensions/amazon-lambda-http/runtime/pom.xml
+++ b/extensions/amazon-lambda-http/runtime/pom.xml
@@ -60,11 +60,6 @@
             <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-            <artifactId>mockito-inline</artifactId>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/extensions/azure-functions-http/runtime/pom.xml b/extensions/azure-functions-http/runtime/pom.xml
index 7fd96d8e28293..aac16f0ab69d8 100644
--- a/extensions/azure-functions-http/runtime/pom.xml
+++ b/extensions/azure-functions-http/runtime/pom.xml
@@ -42,11 +42,6 @@
             <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-            <artifactId>mockito-inline</artifactId>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/extensions/google-cloud-functions-http/runtime/pom.xml b/extensions/google-cloud-functions-http/runtime/pom.xml
index ca04a865e950d..19e4c6cf3461e 100644
--- a/extensions/google-cloud-functions-http/runtime/pom.xml
+++ b/extensions/google-cloud-functions-http/runtime/pom.xml
@@ -47,11 +47,6 @@
             <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-            <artifactId>mockito-inline</artifactId>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/extensions/jaeger/deployment/pom.xml b/extensions/jaeger/deployment/pom.xml
index 4b901e141b351..5b8ad53ce4b32 100644
--- a/extensions/jaeger/deployment/pom.xml
+++ b/extensions/jaeger/deployment/pom.xml
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-            <artifactId>mockito-inline</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency> 
+        <dependency>
             <groupId>io.jaegertracing</groupId>
             <artifactId>jaeger-zipkin</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
diff --git a/independent-projects/arc/pom.xml b/independent-projects/arc/pom.xml
index d2c9db7788a23..a0432406050f3 100644
--- a/independent-projects/arc/pom.xml
+++ b/independent-projects/arc/pom.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
         <version.junit5>5.9.2</version.junit5>
         <version.kotlin>1.8.10</version.kotlin>
         <version.kotlin-coroutines>1.6.4</version.kotlin-coroutines>
-        <version.mockito>5.3.0</version.mockito>
+        <version.mockito>5.3.1</version.mockito>
         <!-- TCK versions -->
         <version.arquillian>1.7.0.Alpha14</version.arquillian>
         <version.atinject-tck>2.0.1</version.atinject-tck>
diff --git a/independent-projects/extension-maven-plugin/pom.xml b/independent-projects/extension-maven-plugin/pom.xml
index ae3f0bf8c8e35..0318bb2a0bff8 100644
--- a/independent-projects/extension-maven-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/independent-projects/extension-maven-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
             <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
-            <version>5.3.0</version>
+            <version>5.3.1</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/independent-projects/tools/pom.xml b/independent-projects/tools/pom.xml
index 003456dfc2dec..d43acc50fec1e 100644
--- a/independent-projects/tools/pom.xml
+++ b/independent-projects/tools/pom.xml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
         <commons-compress.version>1.23.0</commons-compress.version>
         <jboss-logging.version>3.5.0.Final</jboss-logging.version>
         <maven-core.version>3.9.1</maven-core.version>
-        <mockito.version>5.2.0</mockito.version>
+        <mockito.version>5.3.1</mockito.version>
         <version.enforcer.plugin>3.2.1</version.enforcer.plugin>
         <version.surefire.plugin>3.0.0</version.surefire.plugin>
         <nexus-staging-maven-plugin.version>1.6.8</nexus-staging-maven-plugin.version>