diff --git a/examples/datazone-msk-governance/resources/flink/dependency-reduced-pom.xml b/examples/datazone-msk-governance/resources/flink/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
index ed83d5435..78a8bc787 100644
--- a/examples/datazone-msk-governance/resources/flink/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
+++ b/examples/datazone-msk-governance/resources/flink/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
     <iceberg.version>1.5.2</iceberg.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.32</slf4j.version>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    <avro.version>1.10.2</avro.version>
+    <avro.version>1.11.4</avro.version>
     <log4j.version>2.17.2</log4j.version>
     <target.java.version>11</target.java.version>
     <kda.runtime.version>1.2.0</kda.runtime.version>
diff --git a/examples/datazone-msk-governance/resources/flink/pom.xml b/examples/datazone-msk-governance/resources/flink/pom.xml
index 7cb778fcb..68438ae0e 100644
--- a/examples/datazone-msk-governance/resources/flink/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/datazone-msk-governance/resources/flink/pom.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
         <maven.compiler.target>${target.java.version}</maven.compiler.target>
         <flink.version>1.18.1</flink.version>
         <scala.binary.version>2.12</scala.binary.version>
-        <avro.version>1.10.2</avro.version>
+        <avro.version>1.11.4</avro.version>
         <iceberg.version>1.5.2</iceberg.version>
         <hadoop.version>3.3.6</hadoop.version>
         <kda.runtime.version>1.2.0</kda.runtime.version>