diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/DependencyVersionUtil.java b/core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/DependencyVersionUtil.java
index eb943c8eade..18af1ae9244 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/DependencyVersionUtil.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/DependencyVersionUtil.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ public final class DependencyVersionUtil {
      * version number using the previous regex.
      */
     private static final Pattern RX_SINGLE_VERSION = Pattern.compile(
-            "\\d+(\\.\\d+){0,6}([._-]?(snapshot|release|final|alpha|beta|rc$|[a-zA-Z]{1,3}[_-]?\\d{1,8}))?");
+            "\\d+(\\.\\d+){0,6}([._-]?(snapshot|release|final|alpha|beta|rc$|[a-zA-Z]{1,3}[_-]?\\d{1,8}|[a-zA-Z]\\b))?");
 
     /**
      * Regular expression to extract the part before the version numbers if
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/DependencyVersionUtilTest.java b/core/src/test/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/DependencyVersionUtilTest.java
index 23f89847e71..c7038a0d284 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/DependencyVersionUtilTest.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/utils/DependencyVersionUtilTest.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import org.owasp.dependencycheck.BaseTest;
 
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;
 
 /**
@@ -60,6 +61,45 @@ void testParseVersion_String() {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Test of parseVersion method, of class DependencyVersionUtil, for versions
+     * that consist of a number directly followed by a single letter and no
+     * period - the scheme used by libjpeg (8a, 9d, 9e).
+     *
+     * See https://github.com/dependency-check/DependencyCheck/issues/4139
+     */
+    @Test
+    void testParseVersion_singleLetterSuffixWithoutPeriod() {
+        final String[] names = {"9e", "9d", "8a", "libjpeg-9e", "jpegsr9e"};
+        final String[] expected = {"9e", "9d", "8a", "9e", "9e"};
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < names.length; i++) {
+            final DependencyVersion version = DependencyVersionUtil.parseVersion(names[i]);
+            String result = null;
+            if (version != null) {
+                result = version.toString();
+            }
+            assertEquals(expected[i], result, "Failed extraction on \"" + names[i] + "\".");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The user visible consequence of dropping the suffix: 8a and 8b both collapse onto "8", so
+     * the version CPEAnalyzer derives from the evidence compares equal to the version of a CPE
+     * for a different release. Its exact match is
+     * {@code parseVersion(evidence).equals(parseVersion(cpe.getVersion()))}, so a dependency at
+     * 8a matched the CPE of 8b, and the identified version printed in the report was "8".
+     */
+    @Test
+    void testParseVersion_singleLetterReleasesAreNotConflated() {
+        final DependencyVersion evidence = DependencyVersionUtil.parseVersion("libjpeg-turbo-8a.tar.gz", true);
+
+        assertEquals("8a", evidence.toString());
+        assertEquals(DependencyVersionUtil.parseVersion("8a"), evidence);
+        assertNotEquals(DependencyVersionUtil.parseVersion("8b"), evidence);
+        assertNotEquals(DependencyVersionUtil.parseVersion("9e"), DependencyVersionUtil.parseVersion("9d"));
+    }
+
     /**
      * Test of parseVersion method, of class DependencyVersionUtil.
      */