diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 580ee7ff1..bc84e16ea 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
     <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
     <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
     <httpcore.version>5.0-alpha3</httpcore.version>
-    <log4j.version>2.8</log4j.version>
+    <log4j.version>2.8.2</log4j.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.10</commons-codec.version>
     <ehcache.version>2.6.11</ehcache.version>
     <memcached.version>2.12.0</memcached.version>