diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7e6016ff9..b937d4f36 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -29,4 +29,5 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 ### Maintenance
 * Select index settings based on cluster version[2236](https://github.com/opensearch-project/k-NN/pull/2236)
 * Added null checks for fieldInfo in ExactSearcher to avoid NPE while running exact search for segments with no vector field (#2278)[https://github.com/opensearch-project/k-NN/pull/2278]
+* Upgrade jsonpath from 2.8.0 to 2.9.0[2325](https://github.com/opensearch-project/k-NN/pull/2325)
 ### Refactoring
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 7fd67d1b2..e2c1db13f 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -298,11 +298,16 @@ dependencies {
     testImplementation group: 'net.bytebuddy', name: 'byte-buddy', version: '1.15.10'
     testImplementation group: 'org.objenesis', name: 'objenesis', version: '3.3'
     testImplementation group: 'net.bytebuddy', name: 'byte-buddy-agent', version: '1.15.4'
-    testFixturesImplementation 'com.jayway.jsonpath:json-path:2.8.0'
+    // json-path 2.9.0 depends on slf4j 2.0.11, which conflicts with the version used by OpenSearch core.
+    // Excluding slf4j here since json-path is only used for testing, and logging failures in this context are acceptable.
+    testFixturesImplementation('com.jayway.jsonpath:json-path:2.9.0') {
+        exclude group: 'org.slf4j', module: 'slf4j-api'
+    }
     testFixturesImplementation "org.opensearch:common-utils:${version}"
     implementation 'com.github.oshi:oshi-core:6.4.13'
     api "net.java.dev.jna:jna:5.13.0"
     api "net.java.dev.jna:jna-platform:5.13.0"
+    // OpenSearch core is using slf4j 1.7.36. Therefore, we cannot change the version here.
     implementation 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.36'
 
     zipArchive group: 'org.opensearch.plugin', name:'opensearch-security', version: "${opensearch_build}"