diff --git a/test/template-validation-tests/package.json b/test/template-validation-tests/package.json
index f6f7aed58167..071e2f1a2d70 100644
--- a/test/template-validation-tests/package.json
+++ b/test/template-validation-tests/package.json
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
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         "grunt-tv4": "^2.0.0",
         "load-grunt-tasks": "^3.5.2",
-        "mocha": "^5.1.1"
+        "mocha": "^3.0.0"
     },
     "dependencies": {
         "chai": "^4.1.2",
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
         "jsonlint": "1.6.3",
         "json-parser": "^1.1.5",
         "line-column": "^1.0.2",
-        "mocha": "^2.3.3",
+        "mocha": "^3.0.0",
         "recursive-readdir": "^2.2.1",
         "should": "^13.1.2",
         "mochawesome": "^3.0.2",