diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 5ace4600a..c6bbd96e1 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -4,3 +4,9 @@ updates:
     directory: "/"
     schedule:
       interval: "weekly"
+    groups:
+      # init and analyze must run the same CodeQL Action version within a job, and
+      # upload-sarif is kept in step with them, so one PR bumps all three.
+      codeql-action:
+        patterns:
+          - "github/codeql-action*"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
index 6aa63a0d8..1a1c8d6fc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ jobs:
         run: scripts/ci/codeql-retrace-vendored.sh "$RUNNER_TEMP/codeql-retrace.txt"
 
       - name: Initialize CodeQL
-        uses: github/codeql-action/init@1c5b675653bb5c22dbe9b12b556ec555138e09fd # v4.38.1
+        uses: github/codeql-action/init@9b3254085494b55a0f7c4c2b3d2d52cc712ce370 # v4
         with:
           languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
           build-mode: ${{ matrix.build-mode }}
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ jobs:
         run: scripts/build.sh --reuse-vendored --retrace-from "$RUNNER_TEMP/codeql-retrace.txt"
 
       - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@1c5b675653bb5c22dbe9b12b556ec555138e09fd # v4.38.1
+        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@9b3254085494b55a0f7c4c2b3d2d52cc712ce370 # v4
         with:
           category: "/language:${{ matrix.language }}"