diff --git a/tika-parent/pom.xml b/tika-parent/pom.xml
index b86b05d69e4..43567f896d0 100644
--- a/tika-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/tika-parent/pom.xml
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
         OpCode in the initializer in org.apache.tika.parser.asm.XHTMLClassVisitor
         See TIKA-2992.
     -->
-    <asm.version>9.8</asm.version>
+    <asm.version>9.9</asm.version>
     <azure.core.version>1.56.1</azure.core.version>
     <azure.core.http.netty.version>1.16.1</azure.core.http.netty.version>
     <azure.storage.blob.version>12.32.0-beta.1</azure.storage.blob.version>