diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b1d73e4fa..1d19b8ab5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+				 xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@
 
 	<properties>
 		<elasticsearch>7.16.1</elasticsearch>
-		<log4j>2.16.0</log4j>
+		<log4j>2.17.0</log4j>
 		<netty>4.1.65.Final</netty>
 		<springdata.commons>2.7.0-SNAPSHOT</springdata.commons>
 		<testcontainers>1.15.3</testcontainers>
@@ -420,7 +421,9 @@
 								</module>
 							</checkstyleRules>
 							<includes>**/*</includes>
-							<excludes>.git/**/*,target/**/*,**/target/**/*,.idea/**/*,**/spring.schemas,**/*.svg,mvnw,mvnw.cmd,**/*.policy</excludes>
+							<excludes>
+								.git/**/*,target/**/*,**/target/**/*,.idea/**/*,**/spring.schemas,**/*.svg,mvnw,mvnw.cmd,**/*.policy
+							</excludes>
 							<sourceDirectories>./</sourceDirectories>
 						</configuration>
 					</plugin>