diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b50d5450e1..10e9d20fb0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     <ant-version>1.10.15</ant-version>
     <aries-version>1.1.0</aries-version>
     <axion-version>1.0-M3-dev</axion-version>
-    <camel-version>4.4.3</camel-version>
+    <camel-version>4.8.1</camel-version>
     <commons-beanutils-version>1.9.4</commons-beanutils-version>
     <commons-collections-version>3.2.2</commons-collections-version>
     <commons-daemon-version>1.4.0</commons-daemon-version>