diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 6b6b50bd47c..ca5a2a28531 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@
     <snakeyaml.version>1.16</snakeyaml.version>
     <hbase.one.version>1.2.6</hbase.one.version>
     <hbase.two.version>2.0.0-beta-1</hbase.two.version>
+    <junit.version>4.13.1</junit.version>
     <woodstox.version>5.3.0</woodstox.version>
   </properties>
 
@@ -968,7 +969,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>junit</groupId>
         <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-        <version>4.11</version>
+        <version>${junit.version}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>