diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 78331454123..bdc3955edf8 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
     <guice.version>4.0</guice.version>
     <joda-time.version>2.9.9</joda-time.version>
 
-    <bouncycastle.version>1.60</bouncycastle.version>
+    <bouncycastle.version>1.68</bouncycastle.version>
 
     <!-- Required for testing LDAP integration -->
     <apacheds.version>2.0.0-M21</apacheds.version>