diff --git a/mvn-defaults/pom.xml b/mvn-defaults/pom.xml
index 14e1cc628..1a80fbe2f 100644
--- a/mvn-defaults/pom.xml
+++ b/mvn-defaults/pom.xml
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-            <version>2.16.0</version>
+            <version>2.17.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- binding for routing slf4j API calls to log4j -->