diff --git a/NGINX_BASE b/NGINX_BASE
index 058a89bb1..4daa5c4d3 100644
--- a/NGINX_BASE
+++ b/NGINX_BASE
@@ -1 +1 @@
-registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/nginx:v20231208-4c39e6acc@sha256:03508408458d00ba4e219d2693ba2a039ba66d4151ab9b43794f61877e0abb73
\ No newline at end of file
+registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/nginx-1.25:v0.0.5@sha256:cdafd6c9d36e23414ce41330a482f9136ce82fac46802809681f61cdcd5ad0bb
diff --git a/TAG b/TAG
deleted file mode 100644
index 57d503d1e..000000000
--- a/TAG
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-v1.9.5