diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index b90da0d6c06..ac05dadf211 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 
     <!-- Plugin versions and config -->
     <maven-surefire-plugin.argLine>-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=768m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError</maven-surefire-plugin.argLine>
-    <maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.19.1</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
+    <maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.17</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
     <maven-surefire-report-plugin.version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</maven-surefire-report-plugin.version>
     <maven-failsafe-plugin.version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</maven-failsafe-plugin.version>