diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 7facd3a739..fe1d2cee95 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v7 v7.17.10
 	github.com/elastic/go-licenser v0.4.2
 	github.com/elastic/go-resource v0.2.0
-	github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.8.8
+	github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.9.0
 	github.com/elastic/package-spec/v3 v3.5.7
 	github.com/fatih/color v1.18.0
 	github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 v2.5.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 3fc1120152..f549faddb7 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ github.com/elastic/go-licenser v0.4.2 h1:bPbGm8bUd8rxzSswFOqvQh1dAkKGkgAmrPxbUi+
 github.com/elastic/go-licenser v0.4.2/go.mod h1:W8eH6FaZDR8fQGm+7FnVa7MxI1b/6dAqxz+zPB8nm5c=
 github.com/elastic/go-resource v0.2.0 h1:T92tw+THqISnCKaZBijlZMpEpCYkFkwsOgLQxKX6pqA=
 github.com/elastic/go-resource v0.2.0/go.mod h1:KySNvn044vVpPCX1osrkB5MQHemDM5RnkeBFW51CiRo=
-github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.8.8 h1:54KIF/2zFKfl0MzsSOCGOsZ3O2bnjFQJ0nDJcLhviyk=
-github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.8.8/go.mod h1:4E8mPOLSUV9hQ7sgLEJ4bvt0KhMuDJa8joDT2QGAEKA=
+github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.9.0 h1:QRO2O8rv6oORD6N1gDc27bj2jgSdlPFW+t+Uf3MJkik=
+github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.9.0/go.mod h1:6Z66LNkFK5xAlWg3Ny7qgtrvBUadaAcor+kYxw2pXBk=
 github.com/elastic/gojsonschema v1.2.1 h1:cUMbgsz0wyEB4x7xf3zUEvUVDl6WCz2RKcQPul8OsQc=
 github.com/elastic/gojsonschema v1.2.1/go.mod h1:biw5eBS2Z4T02wjATMRSfecfjCmwaDPvuaqf844gLrg=
 github.com/elastic/kbncontent v0.1.4 h1:GoUkJkqkn2H6iJTnOHcxEqYVVYyjvcebLQVaSR1aSvU=
@@ -452,11 +452,9 @@ gopkg.in/dnaeon/go-vcr.v3 v3.2.0 h1:Rltp0Vf+Aq0u4rQXgmXgtgoRDStTnFN83cWgSGSoRzM=
 gopkg.in/dnaeon/go-vcr.v3 v3.2.0/go.mod h1:2IMOnnlx9I6u9x+YBsM3tAMx6AlOxnJ0pWxQAzZ79Ag=
 gopkg.in/evanphx/json-patch.v4 v4.13.0 h1:czT3CmqEaQ1aanPc5SdlgQrrEIb8w/wwCvWWnfEbYzo=
 gopkg.in/evanphx/json-patch.v4 v4.13.0/go.mod h1:p8EYWUEYMpynmqDbY58zCKCFZw8pRWMG4EsWvDvM72M=
-gopkg.in/hjson/hjson-go.v3 v3.0.1/go.mod h1:X6zrTSVeImfwfZLfgQdInl9mWjqPqgH90jom9nym/lw=
 gopkg.in/inf.v0 v0.9.1 h1:73M5CoZyi3ZLMOyDlQh031Cx6N9NDJ2Vvfl76EDAgDc=
 gopkg.in/inf.v0 v0.9.1/go.mod h1:cWUDdTG/fYaXco+Dcufb5Vnc6Gp2YChqWtbxRZE0mXw=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.2/go.mod h1:hI93XBmqTisBFMUTm0b8Fm+jr3Dg1NNxqwp+5A1VGuI=
-gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.8/go.mod h1:hI93XBmqTisBFMUTm0b8Fm+jr3Dg1NNxqwp+5A1VGuI=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0 h1:D8xgwECY7CYvx+Y2n4sBz93Jn9JRvxdiyyo8CTfuKaY=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0/go.mod h1:RDklbk79AGWmwhnvt/jBztapEOGDOx6ZbXqjP6csGnQ=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200313102051-9f266ea9e77c/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=