diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 03ba033e7c12a..3d01cfb4e03e1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -176,7 +176,8 @@
       errors building different Hadoop versions.
       See: SPARK-36547, SPARK-38394.
        -->
-    <scala-maven-plugin.version>4.8.0</scala-maven-plugin.version>
+    <!-- don't upgrade scala-maven-plugin to version 4.7.2 or higher, see SPARK-45144 for details -->
+    <scala-maven-plugin.version>4.7.1</scala-maven-plugin.version>
     <versions-maven-plugin.version>2.14.1</versions-maven-plugin.version>
     <!-- for now, not running scalafmt as part of default verify pipeline -->
     <scalafmt.skip>true</scalafmt.skip>