diff --git a/ethereum/referencetests/build.gradle b/ethereum/referencetests/build.gradle
index dc3e0165017..0d0e0894157 100644
--- a/ethereum/referencetests/build.gradle
+++ b/ethereum/referencetests/build.gradle
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ dependencies {
   referenceTestImplementation project(path: ':testutil')
   referenceTestImplementation project(path: ':util')
   // the following will be resolved via custom ivy repository declared in root build.gradle
-  referenceTestImplementation 'ethereum:execution-spec-tests:0.2.3:fixtures@tar.gz'
+  referenceTestImplementation 'ethereum:execution-spec-tests:0.2.5:fixtures@tar.gz'
   referenceTestImplementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind'
   referenceTestImplementation 'com.google.guava:guava'
   referenceTestImplementation 'io.tmio:tuweni-bytes'
diff --git a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
index f9abaf556a3..bf2f064afa6 100644
--- a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
+++ b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
@@ -1401,9 +1401,9 @@
             <sha256 value="83dec7f0b94d067dbc5c63e416f559087eb13da51f2d5d92c439e88d25d5fdb4" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
-      <component group="ethereum" name="execution-spec-tests" version="0.2.3">
-         <artifact name="execution-spec-tests-0.2.3-fixtures.tar.gz">
-            <sha256 value="3dcf5c33adddec2655f85ea2912da294fc0ea210cb1dd032b5278d78a5a0d805" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+      <component group="ethereum" name="execution-spec-tests" version="0.2.5">
+         <artifact name="execution-spec-tests-0.2.5-fixtures.tar.gz">
+            <sha256 value="1c67818ff9ad052f2da636c1f2e99fbb801191e56af9f1ee1ebe3997039d8186" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
       <component group="info.picocli" name="picocli" version="3.0.0">