diff --git a/versions.yaml b/versions.yaml
index c6bb63d03a..d19438f31e 100644
--- a/versions.yaml
+++ b/versions.yaml
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ 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"