diff --git a/apps/backend/pom.xml b/apps/backend/pom.xml
index 55baf2db7..f7eb64918 100644
--- a/apps/backend/pom.xml
+++ b/apps/backend/pom.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
         <google-cloud-bigquery.version>2.38.2</google-cloud-bigquery.version>
 
         <microsoft-graph.version>6.13.0</microsoft-graph.version>
-        <msal4j.version>1.16.0</msal4j.version>
+        <msal4j.version>1.16.1</msal4j.version>
 
         <!-- transitive versions -->
         <commons-compress.version>1.26.2</commons-compress.version>