diff --git a/mvn-defaults/pom.xml b/mvn-defaults/pom.xml
index 8fce52355..3b63a6b95 100644
--- a/mvn-defaults/pom.xml
+++ b/mvn-defaults/pom.xml
@@ -99,6 +99,18 @@
     <dependencyManagement>
         <dependencies>
 
+            <!-- due to https://github.com/oshi/oshi/issues/1289 -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
+                <artifactId>jna</artifactId>
+                <version>5.11.0</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
+                <artifactId>jna-platform</artifactId>
+                <version>5.11.0</version>
+            </dependency>
+
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
                 <version>${junit.jupiter.version}</version>
diff --git a/nb-api/pom.xml b/nb-api/pom.xml
index 5a44b58da..d5e44110d 100644
--- a/nb-api/pom.xml
+++ b/nb-api/pom.xml
@@ -24,9 +24,15 @@
 
     <dependencies>
 
-        <!-- logging -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jna</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jna-platform</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
 
-        <!-- The ONLY upstream module in project from nb-api -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
             <artifactId>nb-annotations</artifactId>