diff --git a/.github/workflows/scorecards-analysis.yml b/.github/workflows/scorecards-analysis.yml
index 05f6cccc3ec..fe0ccfd664f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/scorecards-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/scorecards-analysis.yml
@@ -66,6 +66,6 @@ jobs:
           retention-days: 5
 
       - name: "Upload to code-scanning"
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@2cb752a87e96af96708ab57187ab6372ee1973ab    # 2.1.22
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@0116bc2df50751f9724a2e35ef1f24d22f90e4e1    # 2.1.22
         with:
           sarif_file: results.sarif
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_github_codeql_action.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_github_codeql_action.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..23cea69e495
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_github_codeql_action.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.2.xsd"
+       type="changed">
+  <issue id="1862" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1862"/>
+  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `github/codeql-action` to version `2.22.3`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc b/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc
index 44d73411177..4fbfc9505e5 100644
--- a/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc
+++ b/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ The module name of four bridges (`log4j-slf4j-impl`, `log4j-slf4j2-impl`, `log4j
 * Update `co.elastic.clients:elasticsearch-java` to version `8.10.4` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1881[1881])
 * Update `com.google.guava:guava` to version `32.1.3-jre` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1875[1875])
 * Update `com.h2database:h2` to version `2.2.224` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1880[1880])
+* Update `github/codeql-action` to version `2.22.3` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1862[1862])
 * Update `io.netty:netty-bom` to version `4.1.100.Final` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1857[1857])
 * Update `org.springframework.boot:spring-boot` to version `2.7.17` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1874[1874])
 * Update `org.zeromq:jeromq` to version `0.5.4` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1878[1878])