diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3cedeb3e153d7..6cc5177e1486d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
       errors building different Hadoop versions.
       See: SPARK-36547, SPARK-38394.
        -->
-    <scala-maven-plugin.version>4.8.0</scala-maven-plugin.version>
+    <scala-maven-plugin.version>4.8.1</scala-maven-plugin.version>
     <versions-maven-plugin.version>2.15.0</versions-maven-plugin.version>
     <!-- for now, not running scalafmt as part of default verify pipeline -->
     <scalafmt.skip>true</scalafmt.skip>