diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 637636479f2..1930e5d7ea3 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -473,6 +473,9 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11005. Fix HTTP content type for ReconfigurationServlet.
     (Lei Xu via wang)
 
+    HADOOP-10814. Update Tomcat version used by HttpFS and KMS to latest
+    6.x version. (rkanter via tucu)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-10838. Byte array native checksumming. (James Thomas via todd)
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
index b65e67a5bbc..b1ca3077b30 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
   <description>Apache Hadoop KMS</description>
 
   <properties>
-    <tomcat.version>6.0.36</tomcat.version>
     <kms.tomcat.dist.dir>
       ${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/share/hadoop/kms/tomcat
     </kms.tomcat.dist.dir>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
index 8701bb0ad6f..24fa87b8b57 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
   <description>Apache Hadoop HttpFS</description>
 
   <properties>
-    <tomcat.version>6.0.36</tomcat.version>
     <httpfs.source.repository>REPO NOT AVAIL</httpfs.source.repository>
     <httpfs.source.repository>REPO NOT AVAIL</httpfs.source.repository>
     <httpfs.source.revision>REVISION NOT AVAIL</httpfs.source.revision>
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index e9adc315922..5aa54a73e64 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@
     <protoc.path>${env.HADOOP_PROTOC_PATH}</protoc.path>
 
     <zookeeper.version>3.4.6</zookeeper.version>
+
+    <tomcat.version>6.0.41</tomcat.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencyManagement>