diff --git a/.circleci/osx_install_dependencies.sh b/.circleci/osx_install_dependencies.sh
index e7a0b9ddfda2..6e0c859f9ace 100755
--- a/.circleci/osx_install_dependencies.sh
+++ b/.circleci/osx_install_dependencies.sh
@@ -59,9 +59,6 @@ then
   brew install openjdk@11
   brew install unzip
 
-  # writing to /usr/local/lib need administrative privileges.
-  sudo ./scripts/install_obsolete_jsoncpp_1_7_4.sh
-
   # boost
   boost_version="1.84.0"
   boost_package="boost_${boost_version//./_}.tar.bz2"
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 5b39878f26d3..29bf2b0ca663 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -70,6 +70,14 @@ endif()
 
 find_package(Threads)
 
+if ("${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}" MATCHES "Darwin" AND "${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" MATCHES "Clang")
+    if (CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_EQUAL "4.0.0" AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_EQUAL "15.0.0.15000040")
+        # for Apple clang 15 under cmake 4.0.0, disable pedantic warnings explicitly as it fails to treat boost properly as
+        # system library, warnings propagate
+        set(PEDANTIC OFF)
+    endif()
+endif()
+
 if(NOT PEDANTIC)
   message(WARNING "-- Pedantic build flags turned off. Warnings will not make compilation fail. This is NOT recommended in development builds.")
 endif()
diff --git a/cmake/EthDependencies.cmake b/cmake/EthDependencies.cmake
index 87a5e1b5e17e..f79140dd29d9 100644
--- a/cmake/EthDependencies.cmake
+++ b/cmake/EthDependencies.cmake
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ endif()
 
 set(BOOST_COMPONENTS "filesystem;unit_test_framework;program_options;system")
 
+# CMake >= 3.30 should not use the vendored boost
+if(POLICY CMP0167)
+	cmake_policy(SET CMP0167 NEW)
+endif()
 if (WIN32)
 	# Boost 1.77 fixes a bug that causes crashes on Windows for some relative paths in --allow-paths.
 	# See https://github.com/boostorg/filesystem/issues/201
@@ -38,7 +42,16 @@ if (WIN32)
 else()
 	# Boost 1.65 is the first to also provide boost::get for rvalue-references (#5787).
 	# Boost 1.67 moved container_hash into is own module.
-	find_package(Boost 1.67.0 QUIET REQUIRED COMPONENTS ${BOOST_COMPONENTS})
+	# Boost 1.70 comes with its own BoostConfig.cmake and is the new (non-deprecated) behavior
+	find_package(Boost 1.70.0 QUIET COMPONENTS ${BOOST_COMPONENTS})
+	if (NOT ${Boost_FOUND})
+		# If the boost version is < 1.70.0, there is no boost config delivered with it, revert to old behavior
+		# todo drop this once cmake minimum version >= 3.30 is reached
+		if(POLICY CMP0167)
+			cmake_policy(SET CMP0167 OLD)
+		endif()
+		find_package(Boost 1.67.0 QUIET REQUIRED COMPONENTS ${BOOST_COMPONENTS})
+	endif()
 endif()
 
 # If cmake is older than boost and boost is older than 1.70,
@@ -49,8 +62,7 @@ if (NOT TARGET Boost::boost) # header only target
 	add_library(Boost::boost INTERFACE IMPORTED)
 	set_property(TARGET Boost::boost APPEND PROPERTY INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
 endif()
-get_property(LOCATION TARGET Boost::boost PROPERTY INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES)
-message(STATUS "Found Boost headers in ${LOCATION}")
+message(STATUS "Found Boost ${Boost_VERSION} headers in ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}")
 
 foreach (BOOST_COMPONENT IN LISTS BOOST_COMPONENTS)
 	if (NOT TARGET Boost::${BOOST_COMPONENT})
diff --git a/scripts/install_obsolete_jsoncpp_1_7_4.sh b/scripts/install_obsolete_jsoncpp_1_7_4.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f9de0245d70b..000000000000
--- a/scripts/install_obsolete_jsoncpp_1_7_4.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -eu
-
-TEMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
-(
-    cd "$TEMPDIR"
-    jsoncpp_version="1.7.4"
-    jsoncpp_package="jsoncpp-${jsoncpp_version}.tar.gz"
-    jsoncpp_sha256=10dcd0677e80727e572a1e462193e51a5fde3e023b99e144b2ee1a469835f769
-    wget -O "$jsoncpp_package" https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp/archive/${jsoncpp_version}.tar.gz
-    if ! [ "$(sha256sum "$jsoncpp_package")" = "${jsoncpp_sha256}  ${jsoncpp_package}" ]
-    then
-        >&2 echo "ERROR: Downloaded jsoncpp source package has wrong checksum."
-        exit 1
-    fi
-    tar xvzf "$jsoncpp_package"
-    cd "jsoncpp-${jsoncpp_version}"
-    mkdir -p build
-    cd build
-    cmake -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES:STRING="x86_64;arm64" -DARCHIVE_INSTALL_DIR=. -G "Unix Makefiles" ..
-    make
-    make install
-)
-rm -r "$TEMPDIR"