diff --git a/projects/control-service/projects/versions-of-external-dependencies.gradle b/projects/control-service/projects/versions-of-external-dependencies.gradle
index 61380247ea..d415b374d1 100644
--- a/projects/control-service/projects/versions-of-external-dependencies.gradle
+++ b/projects/control-service/projects/versions-of-external-dependencies.gradle
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ project.ext {
     versions = [
             // include only libraries which are NOT in the Spring Boot BOM: org.springframework:spring-boot-dependencies
             'com.google.guava:guava'                                             : 'com.google.guava:guava:33.2.0-jre',
-            'com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt'                                       : 'com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt:9.38',
+            'com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt'                                       : 'com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt:9.40',
             // Update the ph-client to latest.
             'io.micrometer:micrometer-registry-prometheus'                       : 'io.micrometer:micrometer-registry-prometheus:1.12.0',
             'org.openapitools:jackson-databind-nullable'                         : 'org.openapitools:jackson-databind-nullable:0.2.6',