diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-secretmanager/samples/package.json b/packages/google-cloud-secretmanager/samples/package.json
index 4aa710e5de5..7da5b9cb0ec 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-secretmanager/samples/package.json
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-secretmanager/samples/package.json
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "c8": "^9.0.0",
     "chai": "^4.2.0",
-    "mocha": "^8.0.0",
+    "mocha": "^10.6.0",
     "uuid": "^9.0.0"
   }
 }
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