diff --git a/pkg/cli/cmds/const_linux.go b/pkg/cli/cmds/const_linux.go
index 3f95e93fad63..a32ca3c214c6 100644
--- a/pkg/cli/cmds/const_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/cli/cmds/const_linux.go
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 package cmds
 
 const (
-	DefaultPauseImage  = "rancher/mirrored-pause:3.6"
+	DefaultPauseImage  = "rancher/mirrored-pause:3.10"
 	DefaultSnapshotter = "overlayfs"
 )
diff --git a/scripts/airgap/image-list.txt b/scripts/airgap/image-list.txt
index 24a0f2bece3c..cd248c4819e0 100644
--- a/scripts/airgap/image-list.txt
+++ b/scripts/airgap/image-list.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ docker.io/rancher/mirrored-coredns-coredns:1.11.3
 docker.io/rancher/mirrored-library-busybox:1.36.1
 docker.io/rancher/mirrored-library-traefik:2.11.8
 docker.io/rancher/mirrored-metrics-server:v0.7.2
-docker.io/rancher/mirrored-pause:3.6
+docker.io/rancher/mirrored-pause:3.10
diff --git a/scripts/airgap/volume-test.yaml b/scripts/airgap/volume-test.yaml
index c851b285c6e0..5decc9e7c545 100644
--- a/scripts/airgap/volume-test.yaml
+++ b/scripts/airgap/volume-test.yaml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ metadata:
 spec:
   containers:
   - name: volume-test
-    image: rancher/mirrored-pause:3.6
+    image: rancher/mirrored-pause:3.10
     imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
     volumeMounts:
     - name: volv
diff --git a/tests/docker/test-run-cacerts b/tests/docker/test-run-cacerts
index 89170bafe520..c80604c99acf 100755
--- a/tests/docker/test-run-cacerts
+++ b/tests/docker/test-run-cacerts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ cluster-pre-hook() {
         -d --name $name \
         --hostname $name \
         ${SERVER_DOCKER_ARGS} \
-        rancher/mirrored-pause:3.6 \
+        rancher/mirrored-pause:3.10 \
         >/dev/null
 
     DATA_DIR="$TEST_DIR/pause/0/k3s" ./contrib/util/generate-custom-ca-certs.sh
diff --git a/tests/docker/test-run-hardened b/tests/docker/test-run-hardened
index d8e101ec323a..36ddd43e45da 100755
--- a/tests/docker/test-run-hardened
+++ b/tests/docker/test-run-hardened
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ cluster-pre-hook() {
         -d --name $name \
         --hostname $name \
         ${SERVER_DOCKER_ARGS} \
-        rancher/mirrored-pause:3.6 \
+        rancher/mirrored-pause:3.10 \
         >/dev/null
 
     docker cp scripts/hardened/cluster-level-pss.yaml $name:/opt/rancher/k3s/cluster-level-pss.yaml