diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3005b57529ce1..46603015d8427 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -2565,7 +2565,7 @@
           <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
             <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-            <version>8.2</version>
+            <version>8.23</version>
           </dependency>
         </dependencies>
         <executions>
diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index ffbd417b0f145..cda4739954aaf 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 addSbtPlugin("com.etsy" % "sbt-checkstyle-plugin" % "3.1.1")
 
 // sbt-checkstyle-plugin uses an old version of checkstyle. Match it to Maven's.
-libraryDependencies += "com.puppycrawl.tools" % "checkstyle" % "8.2"
+libraryDependencies += "com.puppycrawl.tools" % "checkstyle" % "8.23"
 
 // checkstyle uses guava 23.0.
 libraryDependencies += "com.google.guava" % "guava" % "23.0"