diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9597235d4..840947fa1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -91,6 +91,27 @@
 		<url>https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-elasticsearch/issues</url>
 	</issueManagement>
 
+
+	<dependencyManagement>
+		<dependencies>
+
+			<dependency>
+				<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+				<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
+				<version>3.19.0</version>
+				<scope>test</scope>
+			</dependency>
+
+			<dependency>
+				<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+				<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+				<version>2.20.0</version>
+				<scope>test</scope>
+			</dependency>
+
+		</dependencies>
+	</dependencyManagement>
+
 	<dependencies>
 
 		<!-- Spring -->
@@ -316,21 +337,6 @@
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
-		<!-- Upgrade xbean to 4.5 to prevent incompatibilities due to ASM versions -->
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.apache.xbean</groupId>
-			<artifactId>xbean-asm5-shaded</artifactId>
-			<version>4.5</version>
-			<scope>test</scope>
-		</dependency>
-
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-			<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
-			<version>3.1.0</version>
-			<scope>test</scope>
-		</dependency>
-
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
 			<artifactId>mockito-junit-jupiter</artifactId>
@@ -338,27 +344,12 @@
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
-			<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-			<version>3.19.0</version>
-			<scope>test</scope>
-		</dependency>
-
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
 			<artifactId>testcontainers-elasticsearch</artifactId>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
-		<!--we need Murmur3Hash in a test, before 5.2 we had it from the old Elasticsearch dependency	-->
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
-			<artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
-			<version>1.15</version>
-			<scope>test</scope>
-		</dependency>
-
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.tngtech.archunit</groupId>
 			<artifactId>archunit-junit5</artifactId>