diff --git a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-ecs-logging-plugin/pom.xml b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-ecs-logging-plugin/pom.xml
index 6ea6c2c5ee..e4a1cb507c 100644
--- a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-ecs-logging-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-ecs-logging-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-            <version>2.14.1</version>
+            <version>2.20.0</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>