diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
index 78a6b371e6f03..e54946456d4ec 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
     def influxdb_version = "2.19"
     def httpclient_version = "4.5.13"
     def httpcore_version = "4.4.14"
-    def jackson_version = "2.14.1"
+    def jackson_version = "2.15.4"
     def jaxb_api_version = "2.3.3"
     def jsr305_version = "3.0.2"
     def everit_json_version = "1.14.2"
diff --git a/sdks/java/io/hadoop-format/build.gradle b/sdks/java/io/hadoop-format/build.gradle
index fe2a049888082..0ce251101d047 100644
--- a/sdks/java/io/hadoop-format/build.gradle
+++ b/sdks/java/io/hadoop-format/build.gradle
@@ -88,6 +88,12 @@ dependencies {
   testImplementation library.java.cassandra_driver_mapping
   // TODO(yathu) bump to cassandra-5.x which uses newer jamm when released & beam runs test on Java11
   testImplementation "org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all:3.11.10"
+  // Pin snakeyaml version due to cassandra-all not support 2.x
+  testImplementation ("org.yaml:snakeyaml") {
+    version {
+      strictly '1.33'
+    }
+  }
   testImplementation library.java.hadoop_common
   testImplementation library.java.hadoop_hdfs
   testImplementation library.java.hadoop_mapreduce_client_core