diff --git a/Neos.Flow/composer.json b/Neos.Flow/composer.json
index 0791a50b82..8a1c3a1844 100644
--- a/Neos.Flow/composer.json
+++ b/Neos.Flow/composer.json
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
         "neos/composer-plugin": "^2.0",
         "neos/utility-pdo": "~7.3.0",
 
-        "composer/composer": "^1.10.22 || ^2.0.13",
+        "composer/composer": "^2.2.8",
 
         "egulias/email-validator": "^2.1.17 || ^3.0"
     },
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 06b750a04a..d1dc65a0be 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
         "symfony/dom-crawler": "^5.1",
         "symfony/console": "^5.1",
         "neos/composer-plugin": "^2.0",
-        "composer/composer": "^1.10.22 || ^2.0.13",
+        "composer/composer": "^2.2.8",
         "egulias/email-validator": "^2.1.17 || ^3.0",
         "typo3fluid/fluid": "^2.7.0",
         "guzzlehttp/psr7": "^1.8.4",