diff --git a/hack/verify-shellcheck.sh b/hack/verify-shellcheck.sh
index 6a2ace06309..f97158f7b57 100755
--- a/hack/verify-shellcheck.sh
+++ b/hack/verify-shellcheck.sh
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ source "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/lib/util.sh"
 
 # required version for this script, if not installed on the host we will
 # use the official docker image instead. keep this in sync with SHELLCHECK_IMAGE
-SHELLCHECK_VERSION="0.7.0"
+SHELLCHECK_VERSION="0.7.1"
 # upstream shellcheck latest stable image as of October 23rd, 2019
-SHELLCHECK_IMAGE="koalaman/shellcheck-alpine:v0.7.0@sha256:24bbf52aae6eaa27accc9f61de32d30a1498555e6ef452966d0702ff06f38ecb"
+SHELLCHECK_IMAGE="docker.io/koalaman/shellcheck-alpine:v0.7.1@sha256:d6147f30864ddb7c9cf983fc277d345bc315e798e309ddf70062b194843ee252"
 
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 disabled=(