diff --git a/changelog.d/14329.misc b/changelog.d/14329.misc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2f6bbd3af7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/14329.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Bump flake8-bugbear from 22.9.23 to 22.10.27.
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index b945463299..f6e462e6ae 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -260,18 +260,18 @@ pyflakes = ">=2.4.0,<2.5.0"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "flake8-bugbear"
-version = "22.9.23"
+version = "22.10.27"
 description = "A plugin for flake8 finding likely bugs and design problems in your program. Contains warnings that don't belong in pyflakes and pycodestyle."
 category = "dev"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.6"
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
 
 [package.dependencies]
 attrs = ">=19.2.0"
 flake8 = ">=3.0.0"
 
 [package.extras]
-dev = ["coverage", "hypothesis", "hypothesmith (>=0.2)", "pre-commit"]
+dev = ["coverage", "hypothesis", "hypothesmith (>=0.2)", "pre-commit", "tox"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "flake8-comprehensions"
@@ -1829,8 +1829,8 @@ flake8 = [
     {file = "flake8-4.0.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:806e034dda44114815e23c16ef92f95c91e4c71100ff52813adf7132a6ad870d"},
 ]
 flake8-bugbear = [
-    {file = "flake8-bugbear-22.9.23.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:17b9623325e6e0dcdcc80ed9e4aa811287fcc81d7e03313b8736ea5733759937"},
-    {file = "flake8_bugbear-22.9.23-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:cd2779b2b7ada212d7a322814a1e5651f1868ab0d3f24cc9da66169ab8fda474"},
+    {file = "flake8-bugbear-22.10.27.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:a6708608965c9e0de5fff13904fed82e0ba21ac929fe4896459226a797e11cd5"},
+    {file = "flake8_bugbear-22.10.27-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:6ad0ab754507319060695e2f2be80e6d8977cfcea082293089a9226276bd825d"},
 ]
 flake8-comprehensions = [
     {file = "flake8-comprehensions-3.8.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8e108707637b1d13734f38e03435984f6b7854fa6b5a4e34f93e69534be8e521"},
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/presence.py b/synapse/handlers/presence.py
index 2670e561d7..0066d63987 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/presence.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/presence.py
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ class BasePresenceHandler(abc.ABC):
         with the app.
         """
 
-    async def update_external_syncs_row(
+    async def update_external_syncs_row(  # noqa: B027 (no-op by design)
         self, process_id: str, user_id: str, is_syncing: bool, sync_time_msec: int
     ) -> None:
         """Update the syncing users for an external process as a delta.
@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@ class BasePresenceHandler(abc.ABC):
             sync_time_msec: Time in ms when the user was last syncing
         """
 
-    async def update_external_syncs_clear(self, process_id: str) -> None:
+    async def update_external_syncs_clear(  # noqa: B027 (no-op by design)
+        self, process_id: str
+    ) -> None:
         """Marks all users that had been marked as syncing by a given process
         as offline.
 
diff --git a/synapse/server.py b/synapse/server.py
index df3a1cb405..c4e025af22 100644
--- a/synapse/server.py
+++ b/synapse/server.py
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ class HomeServer(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
         if self.config.worker.run_background_tasks:
             self.setup_background_tasks()
 
-    def start_listening(self) -> None:
+    def start_listening(self) -> None:  # noqa: B027 (no-op by design)
         """Start the HTTP, manhole, metrics, etc listeners
 
         Does nothing in this base class; overridden in derived classes to start the
diff --git a/synapse/storage/_base.py b/synapse/storage/_base.py
index bf42aeb8d1..69abf6fa87 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/_base.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/_base.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class SQLBaseStore(metaclass=ABCMeta):
 
         self.external_cached_functions: Dict[str, CachedFunction] = {}
 
-    def process_replication_rows(
+    def process_replication_rows(  # noqa: B027 (no-op by design)
         self,
         stream_name: str,
         instance_name: str,