diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5c8f5d43..392246aa 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
 
 		<eclipse.jetty.version>9.4.18.v20190429</eclipse.jetty.version>
 		<slf4j.version>1.7.25</slf4j.version>
-		<apache.log4j.version>2.15.0</apache.log4j.version>
+		<apache.log4j.version>2.17.1</apache.log4j.version>
 		<gson.version>2.8.6</gson.version>
 		<fasterxml.jackson.version>2.11.2</fasterxml.jackson.version>
 		<commons.lang3.version>3.11</commons.lang3.version>