diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 94d47182ede45..77f3e3a5dcc04 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 ### Dependencies
 - Bump `org.apache.commons:commons-configuration2` from 2.10.0 to 2.10.1 ([#12896](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/12896))
 - Bump `asm` from 9.6 to 9.7 ([#12908](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/12908))
-- Bump `net.minidev:json-smart` from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 ([#12893](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/12893))
+- Bump `net.minidev:json-smart` from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 ([#12893](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/12893), [#13117](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/13117))
 - Bump `netty` from 4.1.107.Final to 4.1.108.Final ([#12924](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/12924))
 - Bump `commons-io:commons-io` from 2.15.1 to 2.16.0 ([#12996](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/12996), [#12998](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/12998), [#12999](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/12999))
 - Bump `org.apache.commons:commons-compress` from 1.24.0 to 1.26.1 ([#12627](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/12627))
diff --git a/plugins/repository-hdfs/build.gradle b/plugins/repository-hdfs/build.gradle
index 2c51bb4cbea53..cd7175e70e607 100644
--- a/plugins/repository-hdfs/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/repository-hdfs/build.gradle
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ dependencies {
   api 'javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.5'
   api "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:${versions.slf4j}"
   api "org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-slf4j-impl:${versions.log4j}"
-  api 'net.minidev:json-smart:2.5.0'
+  api 'net.minidev:json-smart:2.5.1'
   api "io.netty:netty-all:${versions.netty}"
   implementation "com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core:${versions.woodstox}"
   implementation 'org.codehaus.woodstox:stax2-api:4.2.2'
diff --git a/plugins/repository-hdfs/licenses/json-smart-2.5.0.jar.sha1 b/plugins/repository-hdfs/licenses/json-smart-2.5.0.jar.sha1
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ec055efa1255..0000000000000
--- a/plugins/repository-hdfs/licenses/json-smart-2.5.0.jar.sha1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-57a64f421b472849c40e77d2e7cce3a141b41e99
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/plugins/repository-hdfs/licenses/json-smart-2.5.1.jar.sha1 b/plugins/repository-hdfs/licenses/json-smart-2.5.1.jar.sha1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fe23968afce1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/repository-hdfs/licenses/json-smart-2.5.1.jar.sha1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+4c11d2808d009132dfbbf947ebf37de6bf266c8e
\ No newline at end of file