diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 306307892f..c1a31437b0 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ subprojects {
     COMMONS_COMPRESS: 'org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.20',
     JACKSON_DATABIND: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.11.2',
     JACKSON_DATAFORMAT_YAML: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-yaml:2.11.2',
-    ASM: 'org.ow2.asm:asm:8.0.1',
+    ASM: 'org.ow2.asm:asm:9.0',
     PICOCLI: 'info.picocli:picocli:4.5.1',
 
     MAVEN_API: 'org.apache.maven:maven-plugin-api:3.6.3',
diff --git a/jib-core/CHANGELOG.md b/jib-core/CHANGELOG.md
index 1f23841e96..f1f51169f8 100644
--- a/jib-core/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/jib-core/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 - Upgraded jib-build-plan to 0.4.0. ([#2660](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/pull/2660))
 - Previous locally cached base image manifests will be ignored, as the caching mechanism changed to enable multi-platform image building. ([#2730](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/pull/2730), [#2711](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/pull/2711))
+- Upgraded the ASM library to 9.0 to resolve an issue when auto-inferring main class in Java 15+. ([#2776](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/pull/2776))
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/jib-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/tools/jib/api/MainClassFinder.java b/jib-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/tools/jib/api/MainClassFinder.java
index 69afd627bf..8350dde560 100644
--- a/jib-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/tools/jib/api/MainClassFinder.java
+++ b/jib-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/tools/jib/api/MainClassFinder.java
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ private static class MainClassVisitor extends ClassVisitor {
     private boolean visitedMainClass;
 
     private MainClassVisitor() {
-      super(Opcodes.ASM7);
+      super(Opcodes.ASM9);
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/jib-gradle-plugin/CHANGELOG.md b/jib-gradle-plugin/CHANGELOG.md
index f8b80e1337..5ac0395c67 100644
--- a/jib-gradle-plugin/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/jib-gradle-plugin/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 ### Changed
 
 - Previous locally cached base image manifests will be ignored, as the caching mechanism changed to enable multi-platform image building. ([#2730](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/pull/2730), [#2711](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/pull/2711))
+- Upgraded the ASM library to 9.0 to resolve an issue when auto-inferring main class in Java 15+. ([#2776](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/pull/2776))
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/jib-maven-plugin/CHANGELOG.md b/jib-maven-plugin/CHANGELOG.md
index 92a8a39848..65c36cbea7 100644
--- a/jib-maven-plugin/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/jib-maven-plugin/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 ### Changed
 
 - Previous locally cached base image manifests will be ignored, as the caching mechanism changed to enable multi-platform image building. ([#2730](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/pull/2730), [#2711](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/pull/2711))
+- Upgraded the ASM library to 9.0 to resolve an issue when auto-inferring main class in Java 15+. ([#2776](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/pull/2776))
 
 ### Fixed