diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6440d710a..45e9a946a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <junit.version>4.11</junit.version>
-        <spring.version>3.1.2.RELEASE</spring.version>
+        <spring.version>3.1.4.RELEASE</spring.version>
         <slf4j.version>1.7.1</slf4j.version>
         <commons-lang.version>2.6</commons-lang.version>
         <elasticsearch.version>0.20.5</elasticsearch.version>