diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0970d85c0d..aba42b08ee 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
     <maven.min.version>3.3.3</maven.min.version>
     <hbase.version>2.4.4</hbase.version>
     <hbase-thirdparty.version>2.2.1</hbase-thirdparty.version>
-    <log4j2.version>2.16.0</log4j2.version>
+    <log4j2.version>2.17.0</log4j2.version>
     <surefire.provider>surefire-junit47</surefire.provider>
     <test.output.tofile>true</test.output.tofile>
     <checkstyle.version>8.18</checkstyle.version>