diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 972080f00e..c143631db7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 ## UNRELEASED
 
+IMPROVEMENTS:
+* Control Plane
+   * Bump Dockerfile base image for RedHat UBI `consul-k8s-control-plane` image to `ubi-minimal:9.1`. [[GH-1725](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1725)]
+
 ## 0.49.1 (November 14, 2022)
 BREAKING CHANGES:
 * Peering:
diff --git a/control-plane/Dockerfile b/control-plane/Dockerfile
index 802ec4fab2..921ac69784 100644
--- a/control-plane/Dockerfile
+++ b/control-plane/Dockerfile
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ CMD /bin/${BIN_NAME}
 # We don't rebuild the software because we want the exact checksums and
 # binary signatures to match the software and our builds aren't fully
 # reproducible currently.
-FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:8.6 as ubi
+FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9-minimal:9.1.0 as ubi
 
 ARG PRODUCT_NAME
 ARG PRODUCT_VERSION