diff --git a/NOTICE.txt b/NOTICE.txt
index e08c3ae526b..a3950af6ff9 100644
--- a/NOTICE.txt
+++ b/NOTICE.txt
@@ -2434,11 +2434,11 @@ Contents of probable licence file $GOMODCACHE/github.com/elastic/go-sysinfo@v1.1
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Dependency : github.com/elastic/go-ucfg
-Version: v0.8.7
+Version: v0.8.8
 Licence type (autodetected): Apache-2.0
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-Contents of probable licence file $GOMODCACHE/github.com/elastic/go-ucfg@v0.8.7/LICENSE:
+Contents of probable licence file $GOMODCACHE/github.com/elastic/go-ucfg@v0.8.8/LICENSE:
 
                                  Apache License
                            Version 2.0, January 2004
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 7ca950f562d..4d9e19316a9 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v8 v8.12.1
 	github.com/elastic/go-licenser v0.4.1
 	github.com/elastic/go-sysinfo v1.13.1
-	github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.8.7
+	github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.8.8
 	github.com/fatih/color v1.15.0
 	github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.7.0
 	github.com/gofrs/flock v0.8.1
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 4d47a31780f..273839d7457 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -821,8 +821,8 @@ github.com/elastic/go-sysinfo v1.7.1/go.mod h1:i1ZYdU10oLNfRzq4vq62BEwD2fH8KaWh6
 github.com/elastic/go-sysinfo v1.13.1 h1:U5Jlx6c/rLkR72O8wXXXo1abnGlWGJU/wbzNJ2AfQa4=
 github.com/elastic/go-sysinfo v1.13.1/go.mod h1:GKqR8bbMK/1ITnez9NIsIfXQr25aLhRJa7AfT8HpBFQ=
 github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.8.6/go.mod h1:4E8mPOLSUV9hQ7sgLEJ4bvt0KhMuDJa8joDT2QGAEKA=
-github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.8.7 h1:/bKaN553LY3MsfEIz2XOEEs+tRw03TzJCARrnVPpOyc=
-github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.8.7/go.mod h1:4E8mPOLSUV9hQ7sgLEJ4bvt0KhMuDJa8joDT2QGAEKA=
+github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.8.8 h1:54KIF/2zFKfl0MzsSOCGOsZ3O2bnjFQJ0nDJcLhviyk=
+github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.8.8/go.mod h1:4E8mPOLSUV9hQ7sgLEJ4bvt0KhMuDJa8joDT2QGAEKA=
 github.com/elastic/go-windows v1.0.0/go.mod h1:TsU0Nrp7/y3+VwE82FoZF8gC/XFg/Elz6CcloAxnPgU=
 github.com/elastic/go-windows v1.0.1 h1:AlYZOldA+UJ0/2nBuqWdo90GFCgG9xuyw9SYzGUtJm0=
 github.com/elastic/go-windows v1.0.1/go.mod h1:FoVvqWSun28vaDQPbj2Elfc0JahhPB7WQEGa3c814Ss=