diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1eacf6960b..0afe0e7b67 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@
     <flying-saucer>9.0.7</flying-saucer>
     <camel.version>2.14.4</camel.version>
     <log4j.version>1.2.17</log4j.version>
-    <log4j2.version>2.7</log4j2.version>
+    <log4j2.version>2.16.0</log4j2.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.8.0-beta2</slf4j.version>
     <xbean.version>3.18</xbean.version>
     <jolokia.version>1.6.0</jolokia.version>