diff --git a/api/bazel/repository_locations.bzl b/api/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
index 3adc1245a8790..b861d2819ef86 100644
--- a/api/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
+++ b/api/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ REPOSITORY_LOCATIONS_SPEC = dict(
         project_name = "Bazel build tools",
         project_desc = "Developer tools for working with Google's bazel buildtool.",
         project_url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/buildtools",
-        version = "4.2.2",
-        sha256 = "ae34c344514e08c23e90da0e2d6cb700fcd28e80c02e23e4d5715dddcb42f7b3",
-        release_date = "2021-10-07",
+        version = "4.2.3",
+        sha256 = "614c84128ddb86aab4e1f25ba2e027d32fd5c6da302ae30685b9d7973b13da1b",
+        release_date = "2021-10-26",
         strip_prefix = "buildtools-{version}",
         urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/buildtools/archive/{version}.tar.gz"],
         use_category = ["api"],