diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/sanity.pylint.in b/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/sanity.pylint.in
index 2344fb4d3591e5..922492ee1ff7dc 100644
--- a/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/sanity.pylint.in
+++ b/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/sanity.pylint.in
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-pylint == 2.9.3  # currently vetted version
+pylint == 2.9.6  # currently vetted version
 pyyaml  # needed for collection_detail.py
diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/sanity.pylint.txt b/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/sanity.pylint.txt
index 85fdedb846533e..3a67774487781d 100644
--- a/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/sanity.pylint.txt
+++ b/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/sanity.pylint.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ astroid==2.6.6
 isort==5.10.1
 lazy-object-proxy==1.6.0
 mccabe==0.6.1
-pylint==2.9.3
+pylint==2.9.6
 PyYAML==6.0
 toml==0.10.2
 wrapt==1.12.1