diff --git a/bitnami/pgbouncer/1/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/pgbouncer/1/debian-11/Dockerfile
index 8c613a7d7000..44a13590b7e2 100644
--- a/bitnami/pgbouncer/1/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/pgbouncer/1/debian-11/Dockerfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="https://bitnami.com/contact" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Bitnami" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="1.17.0-debian-11-r42" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="1.17.0-debian-11-r43" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/pgbouncer" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="pgbouncer" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
@@ -59,8 +59,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && cd /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && \
     sha256sum -c pgbouncer-1.17.0-155-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz.sha256 && \
     tar -zxf pgbouncer-1.17.0-155-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz -C /opt/bitnami --strip-components=2 --no-same-owner --wildcards '*/files' && \
     rm -rf pgbouncer-1.17.0-155-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz pgbouncer-1.17.0-155-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz.sha256
-RUN apt-get autoremove --purge -y ca-certificates && \
-    apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
     apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
 RUN chmod g+rwX /opt/bitnami
 RUN localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8
diff --git a/bitnami/pgbouncer/README.md b/bitnami/pgbouncer/README.md
index 16b461caa1a2..9be78bdab3d2 100644
--- a/bitnami/pgbouncer/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/pgbouncer/README.md
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Non-root container images add an extra layer of security and are generally recom
 Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags [in our documentation page](https://docs.bitnami.com/tutorials/understand-rolling-tags-containers/).
 
 
-* [`1`, `1-debian-11`, `1.17.0`, `1.17.0-debian-11-r42`, `latest` (1/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/pgbouncer/1/debian-11/Dockerfile)
+* [`1`, `1-debian-11`, `1.17.0`, `1.17.0-debian-11-r43`, `latest` (1/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/pgbouncer/1/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 
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