diff --git a/oak-search-elastic/pom.xml b/oak-search-elastic/pom.xml
index 3cd0dcb967c..b44f326372d 100644
--- a/oak-search-elastic/pom.xml
+++ b/oak-search-elastic/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
   <description>Oak Elasticsearch integration subproject</description>
 
   <properties>
-    <elasticsearch.java.client.version>9.5.4</elasticsearch.java.client.version>
+    <elasticsearch.java.client.version>9.5.6</elasticsearch.java.client.version>
     <!--
       Since ES 9.x the Lucene version is 10.x, but this would require a minimum of Java 21.
       Current Oak minimum Java version is 17, so we need to use Lucene 9.x for now.