diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 71758e17340..297c537b252 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     <slf4j-version>1.6.6</slf4j-version>
     <jetty-test-policy-version>1.2</jetty-test-policy-version>
     <alpn.api.version>1.1.3.v20160715</alpn.api.version>
-    <jsp.version>8.0.33</jsp.version>
+    <jsp.version>8.5.4</jsp.version>
     <!-- default values are unsupported, but required to be defined for reactor sanity reasons -->
     <alpn.version>undefined</alpn.version>
   </properties>