diff --git a/package/sshguard/sshguard.hash b/package/sshguard/sshguard.hash
index d018428d19..81d79e3034 100644
--- a/package/sshguard/sshguard.hash
+++ b/package/sshguard/sshguard.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# sha256 from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshguard/files/sshguard/2.4.3/sshguard-2.4.3.sha256
-sha256  64029deff6de90fdeefb1f497d414f0e4045076693a91da1a70eb7595e97efeb  sshguard-2.4.3.tar.gz
+# sha256 from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshguard/files/sshguard/2.5.1/sshguard-2.5.1.sha256
+sha256  997a1e0ec2b2165b4757c42f8948162eb534183946af52efc406885d97cb89fc  sshguard-2.5.1.tar.gz
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  c3ae64f12153a1bc55bc234d09f40a08ab0e0149fffc972c0b7f02d5a12c1a5c  COPYING
diff --git a/package/sshguard/sshguard.mk b/package/sshguard/sshguard.mk
index 97cbbb2bdd..4aa152bbfc 100644
--- a/package/sshguard/sshguard.mk
+++ b/package/sshguard/sshguard.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SSHGUARD_VERSION = 2.4.3
+SSHGUARD_VERSION = 2.5.1
 SSHGUARD_SITE = https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshguard/files/sshguard/$(SSHGUARD_VERSION)
 SSHGUARD_LICENSE = ISC, Public Domain (fnv hash), BSD-3-Clause (SimCList)
 SSHGUARD_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING