diff --git a/package/libmodsecurity/Config.in b/package/libmodsecurity/Config.in
index f65ab3de93..b15d808759 100644
--- a/package/libmodsecurity/Config.in
+++ b/package/libmodsecurity/Config.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBMODSECURITY
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
 	# libmodsecurity embeds several mbedtls source files
 	depends on !(BR2_STATIC_LIBS && BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL_MBEDTLS)
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE2
 	help
 	  Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity
 	  v3 project. The library codebase serves as an