diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9971a1a7e1e..d55285ab3ba 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     "line-top-index": "0.2.0",
     "marked": "^0.3.6",
     "minimatch": "^3.0.3",
-    "mocha": "2.5.1",
+    "mocha": "6.2.3",
     "mock-spawn": "^0.2.6",
     "normalize-package-data": "^2.0.0",
     "nslog": "^3",