diff --git a/apache-maven/src/assembly/component.xml b/apache-maven/src/assembly/component.xml
index 6d9809c4b5..24378449d0 100644
--- a/apache-maven/src/assembly/component.xml
+++ b/apache-maven/src/assembly/component.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ under the License.
       <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
       <excludes>
         <exclude>org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-classworlds</exclude>
+        <exclude>org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils</exclude>
       </excludes>
     </dependencySet>
   </dependencySets>