diff --git a/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml b/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml
index cb16e91bc4b2..7c0649d7e8b2 100644
--- a/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>net.sourceforge.htmlunit</groupId>
             <artifactId>htmlunit</artifactId>
-            <version>2.32</version>
+            <version>2.45.0</version>
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>
                     <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>