diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index c2d5bbf4..734ce14c 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/go-logr/logr v1.4.2
 	github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 v2.20.2
 	github.com/onsi/gomega v1.34.2
-	github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring v0.76.1
+	github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring v0.76.2
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.3
 	github.com/prometheus/prometheus v0.54.1
 	github.com/sapcc/go-api-declarations v1.12.5
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 405b33c2..78f06684 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.1-0.20181226105442-5d4384ee4fb2 h1:Jamvg5psRI
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.1-0.20181226105442-5d4384ee4fb2/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
 github.com/prashantv/gostub v1.1.0 h1:BTyx3RfQjRHnUWaGF9oQos79AlQ5k8WNktv7VGvVH4g=
 github.com/prashantv/gostub v1.1.0/go.mod h1:A5zLQHz7ieHGG7is6LLXLz7I8+3LZzsrV0P1IAHhP5U=
-github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring v0.76.1 h1:QU2cs0xxKYvF1JfibP/8vs+pFy6OvIpqNR2lYC4jYNU=
-github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring v0.76.1/go.mod h1:Rd8YnCqz+2FYsiGmE2DMlaLjQRB4v2jFNnzCt9YY4IM=
+github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring v0.76.2 h1:BpGDC87A2SaxbKgONsFLEX3kRcRJee2aLQbjXsuz0hA=
+github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring v0.76.2/go.mod h1:Rd8YnCqz+2FYsiGmE2DMlaLjQRB4v2jFNnzCt9YY4IM=
 github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.3 h1:oPksm4K8B+Vt35tUhw6GbSNSgVlVSBH0qELP/7u83l4=
 github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.3/go.mod h1:PIEt8X02hGcP8JWbeHyeZ53Y/jReSnHgO035n//V5WE=
 github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.6.1 h1:ZKSh/rekM+n3CeS952MLRAdFwIKqeY8b62p8ais2e9E=
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring/v1/types.go b/vendor/github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring/v1/types.go
index 21229f24..62d6e29f 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring/v1/types.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring/v1/types.go
@@ -710,6 +710,10 @@ type SafeTLSConfig struct {
 
 // Validate semantically validates the given SafeTLSConfig.
 func (c *SafeTLSConfig) Validate() error {
+	if c == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	if c.CA != (SecretOrConfigMap{}) {
 		if err := c.CA.Validate(); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("ca %s: %w", c.CA.String(), err)
@@ -751,6 +755,10 @@ type TLSConfig struct {
 
 // Validate semantically validates the given TLSConfig.
 func (c *TLSConfig) Validate() error {
+	if c == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	if c.CA != (SecretOrConfigMap{}) {
 		if c.CAFile != "" {
 			return fmt.Errorf("cannot specify both caFile and ca")
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index aae18ca5..825de72f 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ github.com/onsi/gomega/types
 # github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1
 ## explicit
 github.com/pkg/errors
-# github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring v0.76.1
+# github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring v0.76.2
 ## explicit; go 1.22.0
 github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring
 github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring/v1