diff --git a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/pom.xml b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/pom.xml
index 4ed0fb653c7b..a3fece8295bf 100644
--- a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/pom.xml
+++ b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/pom.xml
@@ -137,6 +137,11 @@
       <groupId>com.google.api-client</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-api-client</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <!-- force dependency due to transitive dependency -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.auth</groupId>
+      <artifactId>google-auth-library-oauth2-http</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.api</groupId>
diff --git a/java-datastore/datastore-v1-proto-client/pom.xml b/java-datastore/datastore-v1-proto-client/pom.xml
index bebdc743ae79..b39cab1dcf73 100644
--- a/java-datastore/datastore-v1-proto-client/pom.xml
+++ b/java-datastore/datastore-v1-proto-client/pom.xml
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@
       <artifactId>google-api-client</artifactId>
     </dependency>
 
+    <!-- force dependency due to transitive dependency -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.auth</groupId>
+      <artifactId>google-auth-library-oauth2-http</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
       <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
diff --git a/java-datastore/google-cloud-datastore/pom.xml b/java-datastore/google-cloud-datastore/pom.xml
index 3d5016d51b26..e7536d4aacb2 100644
--- a/java-datastore/google-cloud-datastore/pom.xml
+++ b/java-datastore/google-cloud-datastore/pom.xml
@@ -140,6 +140,11 @@
       <groupId>io.opentelemetry.instrumentation</groupId>
       <artifactId>opentelemetry-grpc-1.6</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <!-- force dependency due to transitive dependency -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.auth</groupId>
+      <artifactId>google-auth-library-oauth2-http</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
       <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>