diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b259721df8b23..c1d6668215e0c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 - Bump `com.squareup.okio:okio` from 2.8.0 to 3.5.0 ([#9252](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/9252))
 - Bump `com.google.code.gson:gson` from 2.9.0 to 2.10.1 ([#9230](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/9230))
 - Bump `lycheeverse/lychee-action` from 1.2.0 to 1.8.0 ([#9228](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/9228))
+- Bump `snakeyaml` from 2.0 to 2.1 ([#9269](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/9269))
 
 ### Changed
 - Perform aggregation postCollection in ContextIndexSearcher after searching leaves ([#8303](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/8303))
diff --git a/buildSrc/version.properties b/buildSrc/version.properties
index 402fc278e379a..56218b0b65fa4 100644
--- a/buildSrc/version.properties
+++ b/buildSrc/version.properties
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ spatial4j         = 0.7
 jts               = 1.15.0
 jackson           = 2.15.2
 jackson_databind  = 2.15.2
-snakeyaml         = 2.0
+snakeyaml         = 2.1
 icu4j             = 70.1
 supercsv          = 2.4.0
 log4j             = 2.20.0
diff --git a/libs/x-content/licenses/snakeyaml-2.0.jar.sha1 b/libs/x-content/licenses/snakeyaml-2.0.jar.sha1
deleted file mode 100644
index d09dea5564729..0000000000000
--- a/libs/x-content/licenses/snakeyaml-2.0.jar.sha1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-3aab2116756442bf0d4cd1c089b24d34c3baa253
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/libs/x-content/licenses/snakeyaml-2.1.jar.sha1 b/libs/x-content/licenses/snakeyaml-2.1.jar.sha1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5586b210a9736
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libs/x-content/licenses/snakeyaml-2.1.jar.sha1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+c79f47315517560b5bd6a62376ee385e48105437
\ No newline at end of file