diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fd3cdd2..953d704 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
             <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
-            <version>2.7.1</version>
+            <version>2.7.2</version>
             <!-- For compatibility with JDK 8. See https://hsqldb.org/doc/2.0/changelist_2_0.txt and https://stackoverflow.com/a/74261846/2351407 -->
             <classifier>jdk8</classifier>
         </dependency>