diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ad655f3849b7e..2f16af3c50c61 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 - Bump `opentelemetry-semconv` from 1.25.0-alpha to 1.26.0-alpha ([#14674](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/14674))
 - Bump `azure-identity` from 1.11.4 to 1.13.0, Bump `msal4j` from 1.14.3 to 1.15.1, Bump `msal4j-persistence-extension` from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0 ([#14506](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/14673))
 - Bump `com.azure:azure-storage-common` from 12.21.2 to 12.25.1 ([#14517](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/14517))
-- Bump `com.microsoft.azure:msal4j` from 1.15.1 to 1.16.0 ([#14610](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/14610))
+- Bump `com.microsoft.azure:msal4j` from 1.15.1 to 1.16.1 ([#14610](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/14610), [#14857](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/14857))
 - Bump `com.github.spullara.mustache.java:compiler` from 0.9.13 to 0.9.14 ([#14672](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/14672))
 - Bump `net.minidev:accessors-smart` from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 ([#14673](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/14673))
 - Bump `jackson` from 2.17.1 to 2.17.2 ([#14687](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/14687))
diff --git a/plugins/repository-azure/build.gradle b/plugins/repository-azure/build.gradle
index 980940e35b0b0..7bd7be1481a2f 100644
--- a/plugins/repository-azure/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/repository-azure/build.gradle
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ dependencies {
   // Start of transitive dependencies for azure-identity
   api 'com.microsoft.azure:msal4j-persistence-extension:1.3.0'
   api "net.java.dev.jna:jna-platform:${versions.jna}"
-  api 'com.microsoft.azure:msal4j:1.16.0'
+  api 'com.microsoft.azure:msal4j:1.16.1'
   api 'com.nimbusds:oauth2-oidc-sdk:11.9.1'
   api 'com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt:9.40'
   api 'com.nimbusds:content-type:2.3'
diff --git a/plugins/repository-azure/licenses/msal4j-1.16.0.jar.sha1 b/plugins/repository-azure/licenses/msal4j-1.16.0.jar.sha1
deleted file mode 100644
index 29fe5022a1570..0000000000000
--- a/plugins/repository-azure/licenses/msal4j-1.16.0.jar.sha1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-708a0a986ed091054f1c08866712e5b41aec6700
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/plugins/repository-azure/licenses/msal4j-1.16.1.jar.sha1 b/plugins/repository-azure/licenses/msal4j-1.16.1.jar.sha1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7d24922196be4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/repository-azure/licenses/msal4j-1.16.1.jar.sha1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+4ad89b4632ef9abab883114e77c079843a206862
\ No newline at end of file