diff --git a/easybuild/easyblocks/generic/configuremake.py b/easybuild/easyblocks/generic/configuremake.py
index 3b88de8f6c..3fb8b0d66e 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyblocks/generic/configuremake.py
+++ b/easybuild/easyblocks/generic/configuremake.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 @author: Toon Willems (Ghent University)
 @author: Maxime Boissonneault (Compute Canada - Universite Laval)
 @author: Alan O'Cais (Juelich Supercomputing Centre)
+@author: Sebastian Achilles (Juelich Supercomputing Centre)
 """
 import os
 import re
@@ -57,10 +58,10 @@
 AUTOCONF_GENERATED_MSG = b"Generated by GNU Autoconf"
 
 # download location & SHA256 for config.guess script
-CONFIG_GUESS_VERSION = '2018-08-29'
-CONFIG_GUESS_URL_STUB = "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb="
-CONFIG_GUESS_COMMIT_ID = "59e2ce0e6b46bb47ef81b68b600ed087e14fdaad"
-CONFIG_GUESS_SHA256 = "c02eb9cc55c86cfd1e9a794e548d25db5c9539e7b2154beb649bc6e2cbffc74c"
+CONFIG_GUESS_VERSION = '2023-08-22'
+CONFIG_GUESS_URL_STUB = "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.guess?id="
+CONFIG_GUESS_COMMIT_ID = "28ea239c53a2d5d8800c472bc2452eaa16e37af2"
+CONFIG_GUESS_SHA256 = "ec2577614252326f889df1de97b9a457c03a9a94811048563c211a44496d8ba3"
 
 
 DEFAULT_BUILD_CMD = 'make'