diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 396a588d6..4a0cd98aa 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ group :development, :test do
   gem "awesome_print", "~> 1.8" # Great Ruby dubugging companion: pretty print Ruby objects to visualize their structure
   gem "bullet", "~> 6.0" # help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading
   gem "capybara", "~> 3.29" # Capybara is an integration testing tool for rack based web applications
-  gem "faker", "~> 2.8" # A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers
+  gem "faker", "~> 2.9" # A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers
   gem "parallel_tests", "~> 2.30" # Run Test::Unit / RSpec / Cucumber / Spinach in parallel
   gem "pry-byebug", "~> 3.7" # Combine 'pry' with 'byebug'. Adds 'step', 'next', 'finish', 'continue' and 'break' commands to control execution
   gem "rspec-rails", "~> 3.9" # rspec-rails is a testing framework for Rails 3+
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 2850df88b..ea11f198f 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ GEM
     factory_bot_rails (5.1.1)
       factory_bot (~> 5.1.0)
       railties (>= 4.2.0)
-    faker (2.8.1)
+    faker (2.9.0)
       i18n (>= 1.6, < 1.8)
     faraday (0.15.4)
       multipart-post (>= 1.2, < 3)
@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   erb_lint (~> 0.0)
   exifr (>= 1.3.6)
   factory_bot_rails (~> 5.1)
-  faker (~> 2.8)
+  faker (~> 2.9)
   fast_jsonapi (~> 1.5)
   fastly (~> 1.15)
   fastly-rails (~> 0.8)