diff --git a/test/k8s/Dockerfile.oci b/test/k8s/Dockerfile.oci
index 4583215e5..669aea727 100644
--- a/test/k8s/Dockerfile.oci
+++ b/test/k8s/Dockerfile.oci
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ARG KIND_NODE_VERSION=v1.27.3@sha256:3966ac761ae0136263ffdb6cfd4db23ef8a83cba8a463690e98317add2c9ba72
 ARG RUNTIME=wasmtime
-ARG GO_VERSION="1.21.1"
+ARG GO_VERSION="1.21.3-bullseye"
 
 # modified from https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/blob/main/images/base/Dockerfile
 # stage for building containerd