diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index b06a614f0b7..6546d380699 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 
     <!-- Plugin versions and config -->
     <maven-surefire-plugin.argLine>-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=768m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError</maven-surefire-plugin.argLine>
-    <maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.17</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
+    <maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.19.1</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>