diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5b088db7b20b5..8341fad9521e0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3485,7 +3485,7 @@
             -->
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
             <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-            <version>10.15.0</version>
+            <version>10.17.0</version>
           </dependency>
         </dependencies>
         <executions>
diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 44b357d95eb94..98170afd84759 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -17,10 +17,9 @@
 
 addSbtPlugin("software.purpledragon" % "sbt-checkstyle-plugin" % "4.0.1")
 
-// sbt-checkstyle-plugin uses an old version of checkstyle. Match it to Maven's.
 // If you are changing the dependency setting for checkstyle plugin,
 // please check pom.xml in the root of the source tree too.
-libraryDependencies += "com.puppycrawl.tools" % "checkstyle" % "10.15.0"
+libraryDependencies += "com.puppycrawl.tools" % "checkstyle" % "10.17.0"
 
 // checkstyle uses guava 33.1.0-jre.
 libraryDependencies += "com.google.guava" % "guava" % "33.1.0-jre"