diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index 21aef7a1eac..8fcd1559c15 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -3249,10 +3249,10 @@ let
   };
 
   DataDumper = buildPerlPackage rec {
-    name = "Data-Dumper-2.161";
+    name = "Data-Dumper-2.172";
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/S/SM/SMUELLER/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "3aa4ac1b042b3880438165fb2b2139d377564a8e9928ffe689ede5304ee90558";
+      url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/X/XS/XSAWYERX/Data-Dumper-2.172.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "a95a3037163817221021ac145500968be44dc155c261f4097136392c0a9fecd9";
     };
     outputs = [ "out" ];
     meta = {