diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 4ca1d78..d1f361c 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ llvm_toolchain(
 
 http_archive(
     name = "com_google_googletest",
-    sha256 = "b4870bf121ff7795ba20d20bcdd8627b8e088f2d1dab299a031c1034eddc93d5",
-    strip_prefix = "googletest-release-1.11.0",
-    url = "https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/refs/tags/release-1.11.0.tar.gz",
+    sha256 = "65fab701d9829d38cb77c14acdc431d2108bfdbf8979e40eb8ae567edf10b27c",
+    strip_prefix = "googletest-1.17.0",
+    url = "https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/refs/tags/v1.17.0.tar.gz",
 )
 
 load("//:wasmer.bzl", "wasmer_repo")