diff --git a/changelog.d/20265-distroless-debian12.enhancement.md b/changelog.d/20265-distroless-debian12.enhancement.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..bf3c1baefeeda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/20265-distroless-debian12.enhancement.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+The distroless images have changed their base from Debian 11 to Debian 12.
diff --git a/distribution/docker/distroless-libc/Dockerfile b/distribution/docker/distroless-libc/Dockerfile
index 773aeadcbdc93..2a0f7084c9a52 100644
--- a/distribution/docker/distroless-libc/Dockerfile
+++ b/distribution/docker/distroless-libc/Dockerfile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p /var/lib/vector
 
 # distroless doesn't use static tags
 # hadolint ignore=DL3007
-FROM gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian11:latest
+FROM gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian12:latest
 
 COPY --from=builder /usr/bin/vector /usr/bin/vector
 COPY --from=builder /usr/share/doc/vector /usr/share/doc/vector