diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 908f0b979803..ead4a81b5550 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ internal API changes are not present.
 Main (unreleased)
 -----------------
 
+v0.43.1 (2024-09-19)
+-------------------------
+
+### Security fixes
+
+- Add quotes to windows service path to prevent path interception attack. (@wildum)
+
 v0.43.0 (2024-09-11)
 -------------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/sources/_index.md b/docs/sources/_index.md
index b5ca3d7b16d7..89e001d80ad0 100644
--- a/docs/sources/_index.md
+++ b/docs/sources/_index.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ title: Grafana Agent
 description: Grafana Agent is a flexible, performant, vendor-neutral, telemetry collector
 weight: 350
 cascade:
-  AGENT_RELEASE: v0.43.0
+  AGENT_RELEASE: v0.43.1
   OTEL_VERSION: v0.96.0
 refs:
   variants:
diff --git a/static/operator/defaults.go b/static/operator/defaults.go
index b1f8ce43fc15..1f61a219f6a3 100644
--- a/static/operator/defaults.go
+++ b/static/operator/defaults.go
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package operator
 
 // Supported versions of the Grafana Agent.
 var (
-	DefaultAgentVersion   = "v0.43.0"
+	DefaultAgentVersion   = "v0.43.1"
 	DefaultAgentBaseImage = "grafana/agent"
 	DefaultAgentImage     = DefaultAgentBaseImage + ":" + DefaultAgentVersion
 )
diff --git a/tools/gen-versioned-files/agent-version.txt b/tools/gen-versioned-files/agent-version.txt
index e38880d6a2a4..134def0bfbdc 100644
--- a/tools/gen-versioned-files/agent-version.txt
+++ b/tools/gen-versioned-files/agent-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v0.43.0
\ No newline at end of file
+v0.43.1
\ No newline at end of file