diff --git a/spark/sql-35/build.gradle b/spark/sql-35/build.gradle
index e66cf4ab9..1181df405 100644
--- a/spark/sql-35/build.gradle
+++ b/spark/sql-35/build.gradle
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ sparkVariants {
             add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "org.apache.spark:spark-streaming_${variant.scalaMajorVersion}:$variant.sparkVersion") {
                 exclude group: 'org.apache.hadoop'
             }
-            add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:2.0.17") {
+            add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:2.0.18") {
                 because 'spark exposes slf4j components in traits that we need to extend'
             }
             add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "commons-logging:commons-logging:1.3.6")