diff --git a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/Javascript/package.mustache b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/Javascript/package.mustache
index 8f3a74e262c..143a44210d8 100644
--- a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/Javascript/package.mustache
+++ b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/Javascript/package.mustache
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     "superagent": "3.7.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "mocha": "~2.3.4",
+    "mocha": "^8.0.1",
     "sinon": "1.17.3",
     "expect.js": "~0.3.1"{{#loadTestDataFromFile}},
     "json-pointer": "0.6.0"{{/loadTestDataFromFile}}