diff --git a/versions.yaml b/versions.yaml
index 04baa162c9..fea9e19615 100644
--- a/versions.yaml
+++ b/versions.yaml
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ externals:
     description: |
       OCI-based Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface implementation
     url: "https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o"
-    branch: "release-1.22"
+    branch: "release-1.23"
 
   containerd:
     description: |
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ externals:
   critools:
     description: "CLI tool for Container Runtime Interface (CRI)"
     url: "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools"
-    version: "1.22.0"
+    version: "1.23.0"
 
   gperf:
     description: "GNU gperf is a perfect hash function generator"