diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1e96cc9bdda..cddb3560cb9 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
     "inline-style": "^2.0.0",
     "ip-cidr": "^2.1.0",
     "joi": "^13.5.2",
-    "js-yaml": "^3.14.0",
+    "js-yaml": "^4.1.0",
     "json-stable-stringify": "^1.0.1",
     "json-stringify-safe": "5.0.1",
     "lodash": "^4.17.21",
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
     "@types/jest": "^27.4.0",
     "@types/joi": "^13.4.2",
     "@types/jquery": "^3.3.31",
-    "@types/js-yaml": "^3.11.1",
+    "@types/js-yaml": "^4.0.5",
     "@types/json-stable-stringify": "^1.0.32",
     "@types/json5": "^0.0.30",
     "@types/license-checker": "15.0.0",
diff --git a/packages/osd-apm-config-loader/package.json b/packages/osd-apm-config-loader/package.json
index c3c0249bd73..fc06ff025e8 100644
--- a/packages/osd-apm-config-loader/package.json
+++ b/packages/osd-apm-config-loader/package.json
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@elastic/safer-lodash-set": "0.0.0",
     "@osd/utils": "1.0.0",
-    "js-yaml": "^3.14.0",
+    "js-yaml": "^4.1.0",
     "lodash": "^4.17.21"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
diff --git a/packages/osd-apm-config-loader/src/utils/read_config.ts b/packages/osd-apm-config-loader/src/utils/read_config.ts
index 806a1ad2e92..7076060cb04 100644
--- a/packages/osd-apm-config-loader/src/utils/read_config.ts
+++ b/packages/osd-apm-config-loader/src/utils/read_config.ts
@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@
  */
 
 import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
-import { safeLoad } from 'js-yaml';
+import { load } from 'js-yaml';
 
 import { set } from '@elastic/safer-lodash-set';
 import { isPlainObject } from 'lodash';
 import { ensureDeepObject } from './ensure_deep_object';
 
-const readYaml = (path: string) => safeLoad(readFileSync(path, 'utf8'));
+const readYaml = (path: string) => load(readFileSync(path, 'utf8'));
 
 function replaceEnvVarRefs(val: string) {
   return val.replace(/\$\{(\w+)\}/g, (match, envVarName) => {
diff --git a/packages/osd-config/package.json b/packages/osd-config/package.json
index 7d2f68abc8d..f6d363c9c38 100644
--- a/packages/osd-config/package.json
+++ b/packages/osd-config/package.json
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     "@osd/config-schema": "1.0.0",
     "@osd/logging": "1.0.0",
     "@osd/std": "1.0.0",
-    "js-yaml": "^3.14.0",
+    "js-yaml": "^4.1.0",
     "load-json-file": "^6.2.0",
     "lodash": "^4.17.21",
     "moment": "^2.24.0",
diff --git a/packages/osd-config/src/raw/read_config.ts b/packages/osd-config/src/raw/read_config.ts
index 0c4a7c2330d..ad7820381ee 100644
--- a/packages/osd-config/src/raw/read_config.ts
+++ b/packages/osd-config/src/raw/read_config.ts
@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@
  */
 
 import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
-import { safeLoad } from 'js-yaml';
+import { load } from 'js-yaml';
 
 import { set } from '@elastic/safer-lodash-set';
 import { isPlainObject } from 'lodash';
 import { ensureDeepObject } from './ensure_deep_object';
 
-const readYaml = (path: string) => safeLoad(readFileSync(path, 'utf8'));
+const readYaml = (path: string) => load(readFileSync(path, 'utf8'));
 
 function replaceEnvVarRefs(val: string) {
   return val.replace(/\$\{(\w+)\}/g, (match, envVarName) => {
diff --git a/packages/osd-optimizer/package.json b/packages/osd-optimizer/package.json
index 2aec5681ba9..5e82a7004ff 100644
--- a/packages/osd-optimizer/package.json
+++ b/packages/osd-optimizer/package.json
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     "execa": "^4.0.2",
     "fibers": "^5.0.3",
     "jest-diff": "^27.5.1",
-    "js-yaml": "^3.14.0",
+    "js-yaml": "^4.1.0",
     "json-stable-stringify": "^1.0.1",
     "lmdb-store": "^1.6.11",
     "normalize-path": "^3.0.0",
diff --git a/packages/osd-optimizer/src/limits.ts b/packages/osd-optimizer/src/limits.ts
index 86b18693027..d81137c3a9a 100644
--- a/packages/osd-optimizer/src/limits.ts
+++ b/packages/osd-optimizer/src/limits.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export function readLimits(): Limits {
     }
   }
 
-  return yaml ? (Yaml.safeLoad(yaml) as any) : {};
+  return yaml ? (Yaml.load(yaml) as any) : {};
 }
 
 export function validateLimitsForAllBundles(log: ToolingLog, config: OptimizerConfig) {
@@ -109,6 +109,6 @@ export function updateBundleLimits(log: ToolingLog, config: OptimizerConfig) {
     pageLoadAssetSize,
   };
 
-  Fs.writeFileSync(LIMITS_PATH, Yaml.safeDump(newLimits));
+  Fs.writeFileSync(LIMITS_PATH, Yaml.dump(newLimits));
   log.success(`wrote updated limits to ${LIMITS_PATH}`);
 }
diff --git a/src/cli/serve/integration_tests/reload_logging_config.test.ts b/src/cli/serve/integration_tests/reload_logging_config.test.ts
index fb3c63ffc71..5950cb1fdfb 100644
--- a/src/cli/serve/integration_tests/reload_logging_config.test.ts
+++ b/src/cli/serve/integration_tests/reload_logging_config.test.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ import Del from 'del';
 
 import * as Rx from 'rxjs';
 import { map, filter, take } from 'rxjs/operators';
-import { safeDump } from 'js-yaml';
+import { dump } from 'js-yaml';
 import { getConfigFromFiles } from '@osd/config';
 
 const legacyConfig = follow('__fixtures__/reload_logging_config/opensearch_dashboards.test.yml');
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ function createConfigManager(configPath: string) {
   return {
     modify(fn: (input: Record<string, any>) => Record<string, any>) {
       const oldContent = getConfigFromFiles([configPath]);
-      const yaml = safeDump(fn(oldContent));
+      const yaml = dump(fn(oldContent));
       Fs.writeFileSync(configPath, yaml);
     },
   };
diff --git a/src/dev/stylelint/lint_files.js b/src/dev/stylelint/lint_files.js
index ead1fde5bb2..2d94f98b396 100644
--- a/src/dev/stylelint/lint_files.js
+++ b/src/dev/stylelint/lint_files.js
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@
 
 import stylelint from 'stylelint';
 import path from 'path';
-import { safeLoad } from 'js-yaml';
+import { load } from 'js-yaml';
 import fs from 'fs';
 import { createFailError } from '@osd/dev-utils';
 
 // load the include globs from .stylelintrc.yml and convert them to regular expressions for filtering files
 const stylelintPath = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', '..', '..', '.stylelintrc.yml');
-const styleLintConfig = safeLoad(fs.readFileSync(stylelintPath));
+const styleLintConfig = load(fs.readFileSync(stylelintPath));
 
 /**
  * Lints a list of files with eslint. eslint reports are written to the log
diff --git a/src/plugins/telemetry/server/collectors/usage/telemetry_usage_collector.ts b/src/plugins/telemetry/server/collectors/usage/telemetry_usage_collector.ts
index 7347975dbc4..e15a1921b73 100644
--- a/src/plugins/telemetry/server/collectors/usage/telemetry_usage_collector.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/telemetry/server/collectors/usage/telemetry_usage_collector.ts
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
  */
 
 import { accessSync, constants, readFileSync, statSync } from 'fs';
-import { safeLoad } from 'js-yaml';
+import { load } from 'js-yaml';
 import { dirname, join } from 'path';
 import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
 
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ export async function readTelemetryFile<T extends object>(
   try {
     if (isFileReadable(configPath)) {
       const yaml = readFileSync(configPath);
-      const data = safeLoad(yaml.toString());
+      const data = load(yaml.toString());
 
       // don't bother returning empty objects
       if (Object.keys(data).length) {
diff --git a/tasks/function_test_groups.js b/tasks/function_test_groups.js
index 91f017a437c..d6df1573a66 100644
--- a/tasks/function_test_groups.js
+++ b/tasks/function_test_groups.js
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ import { resolve } from 'path';
 
 import execa from 'execa';
 import grunt from 'grunt';
-import { safeLoad } from 'js-yaml';
+import { load } from 'js-yaml';
 
 const JOBS_YAML = readFileSync(resolve(__dirname, '../.ci/jobs.yml'), 'utf8');
-const TEST_TAGS = safeLoad(JOBS_YAML)
+const TEST_TAGS = load(JOBS_YAML)
   .JOB.filter((id) => id.startsWith('opensearch-dashboards-ciGroup'))
   .map((id) => id.replace(/^opensearch-dashboards-/, ''));
 
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 2728b79ee99..f4a48db3b33 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -3126,10 +3126,10 @@
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/js-cookie/-/js-cookie-2.2.5.tgz#38dfaacae8623b37cc0b0d27398e574e3fc28b1e"
   integrity sha512-cpmwBRcHJmmZx0OGU7aPVwGWGbs4iKwVYchk9iuMtxNCA2zorwdaTz4GkLgs2WGxiRZRFKnV1k6tRUHX7tBMxg==
 
-"@types/js-yaml@^3.11.1":
-  version "3.12.7"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/js-yaml/-/js-yaml-3.12.7.tgz#330c5d97a3500e9c903210d6e49f02964af04a0e"
-  integrity sha512-S6+8JAYTE1qdsc9HMVsfY7+SgSuUU/Tp6TYTmITW0PZxiyIMvol3Gy//y69Wkhs0ti4py5qgR3uZH6uz/DNzJQ==
+"@types/js-yaml@^4.0.5":
+  version "4.0.5"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/js-yaml/-/js-yaml-4.0.5.tgz#738dd390a6ecc5442f35e7f03fa1431353f7e138"
+  integrity sha512-FhpRzf927MNQdRZP0J5DLIdTXhjLYzeUTmLAu69mnVksLH9CJY3IuSeEgbKUki7GQZm0WqDkGzyxju2EZGD2wA==
 
 "@types/json-schema@*", "@types/json-schema@^7.0.3", "@types/json-schema@^7.0.5", "@types/json-schema@^7.0.8", "@types/json-schema@^7.0.9":
   version "7.0.11"
@@ -11234,14 +11234,14 @@ js-yaml-js-types@1.0.0:
   dependencies:
     esprima "^4.0.1"
 
-js-yaml@4.1.0:
+js-yaml@4.1.0, js-yaml@^4.1.0:
   version "4.1.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/js-yaml/-/js-yaml-4.1.0.tgz#c1fb65f8f5017901cdd2c951864ba18458a10602"
   integrity sha512-wpxZs9NoxZaJESJGIZTyDEaYpl0FKSA+FB9aJiyemKhMwkxQg63h4T1KJgUGHpTqPDNRcmmYLugrRjJlBtWvRA==
   dependencies:
     argparse "^2.0.1"
 
-js-yaml@^3.13.1, js-yaml@^3.14.0, js-yaml@~3.14.0:
+js-yaml@^3.13.1, js-yaml@~3.14.0:
   version "3.14.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/js-yaml/-/js-yaml-3.14.1.tgz#dae812fdb3825fa306609a8717383c50c36a0537"
   integrity sha512-okMH7OXXJ7YrN9Ok3/SXrnu4iX9yOk+25nqX4imS2npuvTYDmo/QEZoqwZkYaIDk3jVvBOTOIEgEhaLOynBS9g==