diff --git a/configure/ingress-nginx/mandatory.yaml b/configure/ingress-nginx/mandatory.yaml
index 6fe138a25f95..135ffe1b0f26 100644
--- a/configure/ingress-nginx/mandatory.yaml
+++ b/configure/ingress-nginx/mandatory.yaml
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ spec:
         kubernetes.io/os: linux
       containers:
         - name: nginx-ingress-controller
-          image: k8s.gcr.io/ingress-nginx/controller:v1.2.0@sha256:d8196e3bc1e72547c5dec66d6556c0ff92a23f6d0919b206be170bc90d5f9185
+          image: k8s.gcr.io/ingress-nginx/controller:v1.9.6@sha256:1405cc613bd95b2c6edd8b2a152510ae91c7e62aea4698500d23b2145960ab9c
           terminationMessagePolicy: FallbackToLogsOnError
           args:
             - /nginx-ingress-controller