diff --git a/checkstyle.xml b/checkstyle.xml
index 9e524577a..a52e1bf7d 100644
--- a/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/checkstyle.xml
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@
              value="CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, ENUM_DEF, METHOD_DEF, CTOR_DEF, VARIABLE_DEF"/>
         </module>
         <module name="JavadocMethod">
-            <property name="scope" value="public"/>
+            <property name="accessModifiers" value="public"/>
             <property name="allowMissingParamTags" value="true"/>
             <property name="allowMissingReturnTag" value="true"/>
             <property name="allowedAnnotations" value="Override, Test"/>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7c15cec38..7d9cae27b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@
           <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
             <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-            <version>8.31</version>
+            <version>8.45.1</version>
           </dependency>
         </dependencies>
         <executions>