diff --git a/.changeset/lemon-crabs-confess.md b/.changeset/lemon-crabs-confess.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..11d269e3895d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/lemon-crabs-confess.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend': minor
+---
+
+Updating fs-extra to 10.0.0 to handle broken symbolic links correctly
diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/package.json b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/package.json
index de97a942c17da..d31e6c0d5f17e 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/package.json
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/package.json
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     "cross-fetch": "^3.0.6",
     "express": "^4.17.1",
     "express-promise-router": "^4.1.0",
-    "fs-extra": "9.1.0",
+    "fs-extra": "10.0.0",
     "git-url-parse": "~11.4.4",
     "globby": "^11.0.0",
     "handlebars": "^4.7.6",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 15091d99fefa2..0400d0bc59aa1 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -13142,6 +13142,15 @@ fs-constants@^1.0.0:
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/fs-constants/-/fs-constants-1.0.0.tgz#6be0de9be998ce16af8afc24497b9ee9b7ccd9ad"
   integrity sha512-y6OAwoSIf7FyjMIv94u+b5rdheZEjzR63GTyZJm5qh4Bi+2YgwLCcI/fPFZkL5PSixOt6ZNKm+w+Hfp/Bciwow==
 
+fs-extra@10.0.0:
+  version "10.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/fs-extra/-/fs-extra-10.0.0.tgz#9ff61b655dde53fb34a82df84bb214ce802e17c1"
+  integrity sha512-C5owb14u9eJwizKGdchcDUQeFtlSHHthBk8pbX9Vc1PFZrLombudjDnNns88aYslCyF6IY5SUw3Roz6xShcEIQ==
+  dependencies:
+    graceful-fs "^4.2.0"
+    jsonfile "^6.0.1"
+    universalify "^2.0.0"
+
 fs-extra@9.1.0, fs-extra@^9.0.0, fs-extra@^9.1.0:
   version "9.1.0"
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/fs-extra/-/fs-extra-9.1.0.tgz#5954460c764a8da2094ba3554bf839e6b9a7c86d"