diff --git a/hack/verify-shellcheck.sh b/hack/verify-shellcheck.sh
index 1d2319e530..f67d1b78d2 100755
--- a/hack/verify-shellcheck.sh
+++ b/hack/verify-shellcheck.sh
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ set -o pipefail
 # required version for this script, if not installed on the host we will
 # use the official docker image instead. keep this in sync with SHELLCHECK_IMAGE
 SHELLCHECK_VERSION="0.7.1"
-# upstream shellcheck latest stable image as of October 23rd, 2019
-SHELLCHECK_IMAGE="koalaman/shellcheck-alpine:v0.7.0@sha256:24bbf52aae6eaa27accc9f61de32d30a1498555e6ef452966d0702ff06f38ecb"
+# upstream shellcheck latest stable image as of September 1st, 2020
+SHELLCHECK_IMAGE="koalaman/shellcheck-alpine:v0.7.1@sha256:6093ec552a8c918483dca0544d44ad56a43c4dbf1d85447f2316f8e3b15e3cb6"
 
 # fixed name for the shellcheck docker container so we can reliably clean it up
 SHELLCHECK_CONTAINER="k8s-shellcheck"