diff --git a/validator/cpp/engine/WORKSPACE b/validator/cpp/engine/WORKSPACE
index 76ab1c33a26ef..1e6b0bddb505b 100644
--- a/validator/cpp/engine/WORKSPACE
+++ b/validator/cpp/engine/WORKSPACE
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ http_archive(
 
 http_archive(
     name = "com_google_googletest",
-    sha256 = "a5c96eaf7a6f11ca84721bbbcac9a036dbb397a278f346d1b4d69b834d4f066f",
-    strip_prefix = "googletest-662fe38e44900c007eccb65a5d2ea19df7bd520e",
-    urls = ["https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/662fe38e44900c007eccb65a5d2ea19df7bd520e.zip"],  # 2019-01-07
+    sha256 = "fe45919a626724a33a0dd251d47d2ad64d67fd96f622c9cf58f4de570f328539",
+    strip_prefix = "googletest-eb6e9273dcf9c6535abb45306afe558aa961e3c3",
+    urls = ["https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/eb6e9273dcf9c6535abb45306afe558aa961e3c3.zip"],  # 2019-01-07
 )
 
 http_archive(
diff --git a/validator/cpp/htmlparser/WORKSPACE b/validator/cpp/htmlparser/WORKSPACE
index a0a335c6e7e01..96327bb4c2558 100644
--- a/validator/cpp/htmlparser/WORKSPACE
+++ b/validator/cpp/htmlparser/WORKSPACE
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ http_archive(
 
 http_archive(
     name = "com_google_googletest",
-    sha256 = "a5c96eaf7a6f11ca84721bbbcac9a036dbb397a278f346d1b4d69b834d4f066f",
-    strip_prefix = "googletest-662fe38e44900c007eccb65a5d2ea19df7bd520e",
-    urls = ["https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/662fe38e44900c007eccb65a5d2ea19df7bd520e.zip"],  # 2019-01-07
+    sha256 = "fe45919a626724a33a0dd251d47d2ad64d67fd96f622c9cf58f4de570f328539",
+    strip_prefix = "googletest-eb6e9273dcf9c6535abb45306afe558aa961e3c3",
+    urls = ["https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/eb6e9273dcf9c6535abb45306afe558aa961e3c3.zip"],  # 2019-01-07
 )
 
 http_archive(