diff --git a/package/openjpeg/openjpeg.hash b/package/openjpeg/openjpeg.hash
index 1e72054724..1992d5ca6a 100644
--- a/package/openjpeg/openjpeg.hash
+++ b/package/openjpeg/openjpeg.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  90e3896fed910c376aaf79cdd98bdfdaf98c6472efd8e1debf0a854938cbda6a  openjpeg-2.5.2.tar.gz
+sha256  368fe0468228e767433c9ebdea82ad9d801a3ad1e4234421f352c8b06e7aa707  openjpeg-2.5.3.tar.gz
 sha256  a6af136f3e15038a666b61f376612a07d9a4e48cb7c01adbf3e33b3f14ab49b6  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/openjpeg/openjpeg.mk b/package/openjpeg/openjpeg.mk
index e7cb7505e9..275659cd3c 100644
--- a/package/openjpeg/openjpeg.mk
+++ b/package/openjpeg/openjpeg.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-OPENJPEG_VERSION = 2.5.2
+OPENJPEG_VERSION = 2.5.3
 OPENJPEG_SITE = $(call github,uclouvain,openjpeg,v$(OPENJPEG_VERSION))
 OPENJPEG_LICENSE = BSD-2-Clause
 OPENJPEG_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE