diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 1c40b24b3..14be93a62 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.5.0
 	github.com/prometheus/common v0.46.0
 	github.com/rs/zerolog v1.32.0
-	github.com/twmb/go-cache v1.2.0
+	github.com/twmb/go-cache v1.2.1
 	go.uber.org/goleak v1.3.0
 	go.uber.org/mock v0.4.0
 	golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20240119083558-1b970713d09a
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 06c889d2d..991d75d6d 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -2013,8 +2013,8 @@ github.com/twmb/franz-go/pkg/kadm v1.10.0 h1:3oYKNP+e3HGo4GYadrDeRxOaAIsOXmX6LBV
 github.com/twmb/franz-go/pkg/kadm v1.10.0/go.mod h1:hUMoV4SRho+2ij/S9cL39JaLsr+XINjn0ZkCdBY2DXc=
 github.com/twmb/franz-go/pkg/kmsg v1.7.0 h1:a457IbvezYfA5UkiBvyV3zj0Is3y1i8EJgqjJYoij2E=
 github.com/twmb/franz-go/pkg/kmsg v1.7.0/go.mod h1:se9Mjdt0Nwzc9lnjJ0HyDtLyBnaBDAd7pCje47OhSyw=
-github.com/twmb/go-cache v1.2.0 h1:VEA/7Arb/yCAzqBiNrN2Q1L6IJrm8+tNonaZ3OsLcgk=
-github.com/twmb/go-cache v1.2.0/go.mod h1:lArg9KhCl+GTFMikitLGhIBh/i11OK0lhSveqlMbbrY=
+github.com/twmb/go-cache v1.2.1 h1:yUkLutow4S2x5NMbqFW24o14OsucoFI5Fzmlb6uBinM=
+github.com/twmb/go-cache v1.2.1/go.mod h1:lArg9KhCl+GTFMikitLGhIBh/i11OK0lhSveqlMbbrY=
 github.com/ugorji/go v1.1.7/go.mod h1:kZn38zHttfInRq0xu/PH0az30d+z6vm202qpg1oXVMw=
 github.com/ugorji/go/codec v1.1.7/go.mod h1:Ax+UKWsSmolVDwsd+7N3ZtXu+yMGCf907BLYF3GoBXY=
 github.com/ultraware/funlen v0.1.0 h1:BuqclbkY6pO+cvxoq7OsktIXZpgBSkYTQtmwhAK81vI=