diff --git a/hadoop-client-modules/hadoop-client/pom.xml b/hadoop-client-modules/hadoop-client/pom.xml
index bed3f5cf53b..6500ebf8fab 100644
--- a/hadoop-client-modules/hadoop-client/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-client-modules/hadoop-client/pom.xml
@@ -177,6 +177,37 @@
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
 
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-client</artifactId>
+      <scope>compile</scope>
+      <exclusions>
+        <!--Excluding hadoop-yarn-api & hadoop-annotations as they are already
+        included as direct dependencies. Guava,commons-cli and log4j are
+        transitive dependencies -->
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+          <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-api</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+          <artifactId>hadoop-annotations</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+          <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>commons-cli</groupId>
+          <artifactId>commons-cli</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>log4j</groupId>
+          <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>