diff --git a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
index 1de14053a2e88..749298b0ac96c 100644
--- a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
+++ b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
@@ -909,12 +909,12 @@ REPOSITORY_LOCATIONS_SPEC = dict(
         project_name = "RE2",
         project_desc = "RE2, a regular expression library",
         project_url = "https://github.com/google/re2",
-        version = "2021-09-01",
-        sha256 = "42a2e1d56b5de252f5d418dc1cc0848e9e52ca22b056453988b18c6195ec7f8d",
+        version = "2021-11-01",
+        sha256 = "8c45f7fba029ab41f2a7e6545058d9eec94eef97ce70df58e92d85cfc08b4669",
         strip_prefix = "re2-{version}",
         urls = ["https://github.com/google/re2/archive/{version}.tar.gz"],
         use_category = ["controlplane", "dataplane_core"],
-        release_date = "2021-09-01",
+        release_date = "2021-11-01",
         cpe = "N/A",
     ),
     # Included to access FuzzedDataProvider.h. This is compiler agnostic but