diff --git a/spring-core/spring-core.gradle b/spring-core/spring-core.gradle
index dae588c6988d823a4efc5c8db589613d81b1cb48..d0400ff5f4327b5ee46496e886925874ce8c0758 100644
--- a/spring-core/spring-core.gradle
+++ b/spring-core/spring-core.gradle
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ dependencyManagement {
 	}
 }
 
-// As of Spring 5.1, spring-core includes asm 7.0 and repackages cglib 3.2.8, inlining
-// both into the spring-core jar. cglib 3.2.8 itself depends on asm 6+ and is therefore
+// As of Spring 5.1, spring-core includes asm 7.0 and repackages cglib 3.2.9, inlining
+// both into the spring-core jar. cglib 3.2.9 itself depends on asm 7 and is therefore
 // further transformed by the JarJar task to depend on org.springframework.asm; this
 // avoids including two different copies of asm unnecessarily.
-def cglibVersion = "3.2.8"
+def cglibVersion = "3.2.9"
 def objenesisVersion = "3.0.1"
 
 configurations {