diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index fa0818bc..47bbbd05 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
+	go.yaml.in/yaml/v3 v3.0.4
 	sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.4.0
 )
 
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 0ce8f1d6..0afa29cd 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0 h1:7aJaZx1B85qltLMc546zn58BxxfZdR/W22ej9CFoEf0=
 github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0/go.mod h1:WXLWApfZ71AjXPya3WOlMsY9yMs7YeiHhFVlvLyhcho=
 github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5 h1:iy+VFUOCP1a+8yFto/drg2CJ5u0yRoB7fZw3DKv/JXA=
 github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5/go.mod h1:McXfInJRrz4CZXVZOBLb0bTZqETkiAhM9Iw0y3An2Bg=
+go.yaml.in/yaml/v3 v3.0.4 h1:tfq32ie2Jv2UxXFdLJdh3jXuOzWiL1fo0bu/FbuKpbc=
+go.yaml.in/yaml/v3 v3.0.4/go.mod h1:DhzuOOF2ATzADvBadXxruRBLzYTpT36CKvDb3+aBEFg=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.6.0 h1:MVltZSvRTcU2ljQOhs94SXPftV6DCNnZViHeQps87pQ=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.6.0/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
 gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405/go.mod h1:Co6ibVJAznAaIkqp8huTwlJQCZ016jof/cbN4VW5Yz0=
diff --git a/pkg/cluster/internal/kubeconfig/internal/kubeconfig/encode.go b/pkg/cluster/internal/kubeconfig/internal/kubeconfig/encode.go
index c15de723..339c09a4 100644
--- a/pkg/cluster/internal/kubeconfig/internal/kubeconfig/encode.go
+++ b/pkg/cluster/internal/kubeconfig/internal/kubeconfig/encode.go
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ package kubeconfig
 import (
 	"bytes"
 
+	yaml "go.yaml.in/yaml/v3"
 	kubeyaml "sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
-	yaml "sigs.k8s.io/yaml/goyaml.v3"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/errors"
 )
diff --git a/pkg/cluster/internal/kubeconfig/internal/kubeconfig/read.go b/pkg/cluster/internal/kubeconfig/internal/kubeconfig/read.go
index c8568f5b..240de041 100644
--- a/pkg/cluster/internal/kubeconfig/internal/kubeconfig/read.go
+++ b/pkg/cluster/internal/kubeconfig/internal/kubeconfig/read.go
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"os"
 
-	yaml "sigs.k8s.io/yaml/goyaml.v3"
+	yaml "go.yaml.in/yaml/v3"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/errors"
 )
diff --git a/pkg/internal/apis/config/encoding/load.go b/pkg/internal/apis/config/encoding/load.go
index c54d16e9..796b5730 100644
--- a/pkg/internal/apis/config/encoding/load.go
+++ b/pkg/internal/apis/config/encoding/load.go
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"os"
 
-	yaml "sigs.k8s.io/yaml/goyaml.v3"
+	yaml "go.yaml.in/yaml/v3"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/apis/config/v1alpha4"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/errors"
diff --git a/pkg/internal/patch/toml.go b/pkg/internal/patch/toml.go
index f7e30e9e..09b587ed 100644
--- a/pkg/internal/patch/toml.go
+++ b/pkg/internal/patch/toml.go
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import (
 	jsonpatch "github.com/evanphx/json-patch/v5"
 	toml "github.com/pelletier/go-toml"
 
-	yaml "sigs.k8s.io/yaml/goyaml.v3"
+	yaml "go.yaml.in/yaml/v3"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/errors"
 )