diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 33114e4ab..57efb10ad 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
     <redback.registry.version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</redback.registry.version>
     <redback.spring-utils.version>2.0</redback.spring-utils.version>
     <redback.taskqueue.version>2.0</redback.taskqueue.version>
-    <slf4j.version>1.7.2</slf4j.version>
+    <slf4j.version>1.7.5</slf4j.version>
     <log4j.version>2.0-beta5</log4j.version>
 
     <spring.version>3.2.2.RELEASE</spring.version>