diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0a14673d4..37e352432 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@
     <braintree.version>3.27.0</braintree.version>
     <commons-csv.version>1.10.0</commons-csv.version>
     <commons-io.version>2.14.0</commons-io.version>
-    <dropwizard.version>3.0.4</dropwizard.version>
+    <dropwizard.version>3.0.6</dropwizard.version>
     <dropwizard-metrics-datadog.version>1.1.13</dropwizard-metrics-datadog.version>
-    <google-cloud-libraries.version>26.25.0</google-cloud-libraries.version>
-    <grpc.version>1.58.0</grpc.version> <!-- should be kept in sync with the value from Google libraries-bom -->
+    <google-cloud-libraries.version>26.33.0</google-cloud-libraries.version>
+    <grpc.version>1.61.1</grpc.version> <!-- should be kept in sync with the value from Google libraries-bom -->
     <gson.version>2.10.1</gson.version>
     <!-- several libraries (AWS, Google Cloud) use Apache http components transitively, and we need to align them -->
     <httpcore.version>4.4.16</httpcore.version>
diff --git a/service/pom.xml b/service/pom.xml
index bd9f692cd..61736ff81 100644
--- a/service/pom.xml
+++ b/service/pom.xml
@@ -225,6 +225,13 @@
       <groupId>com.google.firebase</groupId>
       <artifactId>firebase-admin</artifactId>
       <version>${firebase-admin.version}</version>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <!-- fix dependency convergence from older 1.0.1 -->
+          <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+          <artifactId>failureaccess</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
@@ -248,6 +255,13 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
       <artifactId>grpc-netty</artifactId>
+      <exclusions>
+        <!-- fix dependency convergence from older 0.26.0 -->
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>io.perfmark</groupId>
+          <artifactId>perfmark-api</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
@@ -468,6 +482,13 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-cloud-recaptchaenterprise</artifactId>
+      <exclusions>
+        <!-- fix dependency convergence from older 1.0.1 -->
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+          <artifactId>failureaccess</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>