diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f6eb4dc..1c842df 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <log4j.version>2.13.3</log4j.version>
+        <log4j.version>2.17.1</log4j.version>
         <slf4j.version>1.7.25</slf4j.version>
         <jmh.version>1.21</jmh.version>
         <nanofix.version>1.0.0</nanofix.version>