diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 926aa712..5ab44415 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - Bump github.com/coreos/ignition/v2 from 2.15.0 to 2.19.0 #1239
 - Bump github.com/sassoftware/go-rpmutils from 0.2.0 to 0.4.0 #1217
 - Bump github.com/containers/storage from 1.53.0 to 1.55.0 #1316
+- Bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 #1481
 - Disable building containers by default when calling `wwctl container copy`. #1378
 - Split wwinit and generic overlays into discrete functionality. #987
 - Updated IgnitionJson to sort filesystems. #1433
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 68fe5e15..01eba8e9 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/opencontainers/umoci v0.4.7
 	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1
 	github.com/sassoftware/go-rpmutils v0.4.0
-	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0
+	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.1
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.9.0
 	github.com/talos-systems/go-smbios v0.1.1
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.22.0
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/containers/ocicrypt v1.1.9 // indirect
 	github.com/coreos/go-semver v0.3.1 // indirect
 	github.com/coreos/go-systemd/v22 v22.5.0 // indirect
-	github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.3 // indirect
+	github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.4 // indirect
 	github.com/cyberphone/json-canonicalization v0.0.0-20231217050601-ba74d44ecf5f // indirect
 	github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin v0.3.1 // indirect
 	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 // indirect
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 73016a55..ba309748 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ github.com/coreos/vcontext v0.0.0-20230201181013-d72178a18687/go.mod h1:Salmysdw
 github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.0-20190314233015-f79a8a8ca69d/go.mod h1:maD7wRr/U5Z6m/iR4s+kqSMx2CaBsrgA7czyZG/E6dU=
 github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.0/go.mod h1:maD7wRr/U5Z6m/iR4s+kqSMx2CaBsrgA7czyZG/E6dU=
 github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.2/go.mod h1:tgQtvFlXSQOSOSIRvRPT7W67SCa46tRHOmNcaadrF8o=
-github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.3 h1:qMCsGGgs+MAzDFyp9LpAe1Lqy/fY/qCovCm0qnXZOBM=
-github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.3/go.mod h1:tgQtvFlXSQOSOSIRvRPT7W67SCa46tRHOmNcaadrF8o=
+github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.4 h1:wfIWP927BUkWJb2NmU/kNDYIBTh/ziUX91+lVfRxZq4=
+github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.4/go.mod h1:tgQtvFlXSQOSOSIRvRPT7W67SCa46tRHOmNcaadrF8o=
 github.com/creack/pty v1.1.9/go.mod h1:oKZEueFk5CKHvIhNR5MUki03XCEU+Q6VDXinZuGJ33E=
 github.com/creasty/defaults v1.7.0 h1:eNdqZvc5B509z18lD8yc212CAqJNvfT1Jq6L8WowdBA=
 github.com/creasty/defaults v1.7.0/go.mod h1:iGzKe6pbEHnpMPtfDXZEr0NVxWnPTjb1bbDy08fPzYM=
@@ -419,8 +419,8 @@ github.com/spf13/cast v1.3.1/go.mod h1:Qx5cxh0v+4UWYiBimWS+eyWzqEqokIECu5etghLkU
 github.com/spf13/cast v1.5.1 h1:R+kOtfhWQE6TVQzY+4D7wJLBgkdVasCEFxSUBYBYIlA=
 github.com/spf13/cast v1.5.1/go.mod h1:b9PdjNptOpzXr7Rq1q9gJML/2cdGQAo69NKzQ10KN48=
 github.com/spf13/cobra v0.0.3/go.mod h1:1l0Ry5zgKvJasoi3XT1TypsSe7PqH0Sj9dhYf7v3XqQ=
-github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0 h1:7aJaZx1B85qltLMc546zn58BxxfZdR/W22ej9CFoEf0=
-github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0/go.mod h1:WXLWApfZ71AjXPya3WOlMsY9yMs7YeiHhFVlvLyhcho=
+github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.1 h1:e5/vxKd/rZsfSJMUX1agtjeTDf+qv1/JdBF8gg5k9ZM=
+github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.1/go.mod h1:wHxEcudfqmLYa8iTfL+OuZPbBZkmvliBWKIezN3kD9Y=
 github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.3/go.mod h1:DYY7MBk1bdzusC3SYhjObp+wFpr4gzcvqqNjLnInEg4=
 github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5/go.mod h1:McXfInJRrz4CZXVZOBLb0bTZqETkiAhM9Iw0y3An2Bg=
 github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.6-0.20210604193023-d5e0c0615ace h1:9PNP1jnUjRhfmGMlkXHjYPishpcw4jpSt/V/xYY3FMA=