diff --git a/lucene/ivy-versions.properties b/lucene/ivy-versions.properties
index f9b1808b9ec..0e0e65d8766 100644
--- a/lucene/ivy-versions.properties
+++ b/lucene/ivy-versions.properties
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ com.sun.jersey.version = 1.19
 
 /com.tdunning/t-digest = 3.1
 /com.vaadin.external.google/android-json = 0.0.20131108.vaadin1
-/commons-cli/commons-cli = 1.2
+/commons-cli/commons-cli = 1.4
 /commons-codec/commons-codec = 1.13
 /commons-collections/commons-collections = 3.2.2
 /commons-fileupload/commons-fileupload = 1.3.3
diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 24cb5f4f963..1b814bad90a 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ Other Changes
 * SOLR-11934: Visit Solr logging, it's too noisy. Note particularly that the messages for
   opening a new searcher have changed and include the autowarm time. (Erick Erickson)
 
+* SOLR-7880: Update commons-cli to 1.4 (Erick Erickson)
+
 ==================  8.5.1 ==================
 
 Consult the LUCENE_CHANGES.txt file for additional, low level, changes in this release.
diff --git a/solr/licenses/commons-cli-1.2.jar.sha1 b/solr/licenses/commons-cli-1.2.jar.sha1
deleted file mode 100644
index 6dacb321cdf..00000000000
--- a/solr/licenses/commons-cli-1.2.jar.sha1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-2bf96b7aa8b611c177d329452af1dc933e14501c
diff --git a/solr/licenses/commons-cli-1.4.jar.sha1 b/solr/licenses/commons-cli-1.4.jar.sha1
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..536f272467a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/licenses/commons-cli-1.4.jar.sha1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+c51c00206bb913cd8612b24abd9fa98ae89719b1
diff --git a/versions.lock b/versions.lock
index 44ded4189c6..31088b2e074 100644
--- a/versions.lock
+++ b/versions.lock
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ com.sun.mail:gimap:1.5.1 (1 constraints: 09050036)
 com.sun.mail:javax.mail:1.5.1 (2 constraints: 830d2844)
 com.tdunning:t-digest:3.1 (1 constraints: a804212c)
 com.vaadin.external.google:android-json:0.0.20131108.vaadin1 (1 constraints: 34092a9e)
-commons-cli:commons-cli:1.2 (1 constraints: a7041c2c)
+commons-cli:commons-cli:1.4 (1 constraints: a9041e2c)
 commons-codec:commons-codec:1.13 (1 constraints: d904f430)
 commons-collections:commons-collections:3.2.2 (1 constraints: 09050236)
 commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload:1.3.3 (1 constraints: 0905fc35)
diff --git a/versions.props b/versions.props
index efefd2fd6f3..ea2a0a44b7e 100644
--- a/versions.props
+++ b/versions.props
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ com.sun.mail:*=1.5.1
 com.tdunning:t-digest=3.1
 com.vaadin.external.google:android-json=0.0.20131108.vaadin1
 commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils=1.9.3
-commons-cli:commons-cli=1.2
+commons-cli:commons-cli=1.4
 commons-codec:commons-codec=1.13
 commons-collections:commons-collections=3.2.2
 commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload=1.3.3