diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/PR#4555-increment_opennlp_version.yml b/changelog/unreleased/PR#4555-increment_opennlp_version.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c67eff9eafc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/PR#4555-increment_opennlp_version.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# See https://github.com/apache/solr/blob/main/dev-docs/changelog.adoc
+title: Increment OpenNLP to 1.9.5 fixing some CVE's
+type: dependency_update # added, changed, fixed, deprecated, removed, dependency_update, security, other
+authors:
+  - name: Eric Pugh
+links:
+  - name: PR#4555
+    url: https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/4555
diff --git a/solr/licenses/opennlp-tools-1.9.4.jar.sha1 b/solr/licenses/opennlp-tools-1.9.4.jar.sha1
deleted file mode 100644
index fa7e85dd48fb..000000000000
--- a/solr/licenses/opennlp-tools-1.9.4.jar.sha1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-dd5c4a6d82453bcccb78ba4ac90f166366dde12b
diff --git a/solr/licenses/opennlp-tools-1.9.5.jar.sha1 b/solr/licenses/opennlp-tools-1.9.5.jar.sha1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a17f09de2119
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/licenses/opennlp-tools-1.9.5.jar.sha1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+15fd24951658ae6cd2bc9ccc7f005a8bbde7b2c7
diff --git a/solr/modules/analysis-extras/build.gradle b/solr/modules/analysis-extras/build.gradle
index 09398b4ac5b5..18cdeb765605 100644
--- a/solr/modules/analysis-extras/build.gradle
+++ b/solr/modules/analysis-extras/build.gradle
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ dependencies {
   runtimeOnly 'org.apache.lucene:lucene-analysis-smartcn'
   runtimeOnly 'org.apache.lucene:lucene-analysis-stempel'
   implementation 'org.apache.lucene:lucene-core'
-  // NOTE: Need to stay on same version of opennlp-tools as lucene-analysis-opennlp
   implementation 'org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools'
   implementation 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api'
 
diff --git a/solr/modules/langid/build.gradle b/solr/modules/langid/build.gradle
index 6ce5a13b4dbe..dc6c5516bec4 100644
--- a/solr/modules/langid/build.gradle
+++ b/solr/modules/langid/build.gradle
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ dependencies {
   }
   implementation 'commons-io:commons-io'
   implementation 'com.cybozu.labs:langdetect'
-  // NOTE: Currently not defined in versions.props since we need to stay on same version as Lucene due to opennlp
   implementation 'org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools'
   implementation 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api'
 
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/antora.yml b/solr/solr-ref-guide/antora.yml
index 0cf97001dd35..cd4115334377 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/antora.yml
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/antora.yml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ asciidoc:
     dep-version-dropwizard: '4.2.26'
     dep-version-hadoop: '3.4.1'
     dep-version-log4j: '2.21.0'
-    dep-version-opennlp: '1.9.4'
+    dep-version-opennlp: '1.9.5'
     dep-version-tika: '1.28.5'
     dep-version-zookeeper: '3.9.4'
     dep-version-lucene: '9.12.3'
diff --git a/versions.lock b/versions.lock
index 1b2d685a5bae..8c916c3c2e14 100644
--- a/versions.lock
+++ b/versions.lock
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ org.apache.lucene:lucene-spatial-extras:9.12.3 (1 constraints: 4105623b)
 org.apache.lucene:lucene-spatial3d:9.12.3 (1 constraints: ee109eca)
 org.apache.lucene:lucene-suggest:9.12.3 (1 constraints: 4105623b)
 org.apache.lucene:lucene-test-framework:9.12.3 (1 constraints: 4105623b)
-org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools:1.9.4 (1 constraints: 9811cee0)
+org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools:1.9.5 (2 constraints: a8161c14)
 org.apache.poi:poi:5.5.1 (2 constraints: db0f56a8)
 org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml:5.5.1 (1 constraints: 0d051436)
 org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml-lite:5.5.1 (1 constraints: cf0aa7cb)
diff --git a/versions.props b/versions.props
index db559662c37a..f476945b7801 100644
--- a/versions.props
+++ b/versions.props
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ org.apache.kafka:*=3.9.2
 org.apache.kerby:*=2.1.0
 org.apache.logging.log4j:*=2.26.0
 org.apache.lucene:*=9.12.3
+# Override the OpenNLP tools version that Solr would otherwise inherit from Lucene
+org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools=1.9.5
 org.apache.poi:*=5.5.1
 org.apache.tika:*=3.3.0
 org.apache.tomcat:annotations-api=6.0.53