diff --git a/owasp-dependency-check-suppressions.xml b/owasp-dependency-check-suppressions.xml
index be02807ca38d..abc05abead5f 100644
--- a/owasp-dependency-check-suppressions.xml
+++ b/owasp-dependency-check-suppressions.xml
@@ -470,4 +470,13 @@
     ]]></notes>
     <cve>CVE-2021-43045</cve>
   </suppress>
+
+  <suppress>
+    <!-- False alarm for the Async javascript library (https://github.com/caolan/async) which is a dev dependency for the web console -->
+    <notes><![CDATA[
+   file name: async-http-client-netty-utils-2.5.3.jar
+   ]]></notes>
+    <packageUrl regex="true">^pkg:maven/org\.asynchttpclient/async-http-client-netty-utils@2.5.3$</packageUrl>
+    <cve>CVE-2021-43138</cve>
+  </suppress>
 </suppressions>