diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 5b0e038f..2d97fa06 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -37,4 +37,4 @@ addSbtPlugin("org.scoverage" % "sbt-scoverage" % "2.0.0")
 // Java Checkstyle plugin.
 // See more: https://github.com/etsy/sbt-checkstyle-plugin
 addSbtPlugin("com.etsy"                       % "sbt-checkstyle-plugin" % "3.1.1")
-dependencyOverrides += "com.puppycrawl.tools" % "checkstyle"            % "10.12.1"
+dependencyOverrides += "com.puppycrawl.tools" % "checkstyle"            % "10.17.0"