diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 6caf26fedc8..702a7d32aa0 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -992,6 +992,11 @@
         <artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
         <version>1.8.5</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.objenesis</groupId>
+        <artifactId>objenesis</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0</version>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.mock-server</groupId>
         <artifactId>mockserver-netty</artifactId>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-applicationhistoryservice/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-applicationhistoryservice/pom.xml
index 3cab4c6a4f2..13a373ae162 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-applicationhistoryservice/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-applicationhistoryservice/pom.xml
@@ -155,6 +155,11 @@
       <artifactId>leveldbjni-all</artifactId>
     </dependency>
 
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.objenesis</groupId>
+      <artifactId>objenesis</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+
     <!-- 'mvn dependency:analyze' fails to detect use of this dependency -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>