diff --git a/common/.commonfiles.sha b/common/.commonfiles.sha
index 7f8da3719e..5f477049a3 100644
--- a/common/.commonfiles.sha
+++ b/common/.commonfiles.sha
@@ -1 +1 @@
-a8f21aeea1c5f3444c86a31056b2acc050308ff8
+896551b13bf2974ecccf4edec70d95e018b1d301
diff --git a/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh b/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh
index 9f53e65985..4a4cb4d1eb 100644
--- a/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh
+++ b/common/scripts/kind_provisioner.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ set -x
 ####################################################################
 
 # DEFAULT_KIND_IMAGE is used to set the Kubernetes version for KinD unless overridden in params to setup_kind_cluster(s)
-DEFAULT_KIND_IMAGE="gcr.io/istio-testing/kind-node:v1.26.0"
+DEFAULT_KIND_IMAGE="gcr.io/istio-testing/kind-node:v1.27.3"
 
 # COMMON_SCRIPTS contains the directory this file is in.
 COMMON_SCRIPTS=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE:-$0}")