diff --git a/microservices-modules/rest-express/pom.xml b/microservices-modules/rest-express/pom.xml
index da697fdc56..182d14cfbf 100644
--- a/microservices-modules/rest-express/pom.xml
+++ b/microservices-modules/rest-express/pom.xml
@@ -144,7 +144,6 @@
         <Syntaxe.version>1.0</Syntaxe.version>
         <repoexpress-mongodb.version>0.4.8</repoexpress-mongodb.version>
         <junit4.version>4.11</junit4.version>
-        <exec-maven-plugin.version>1.2.1</exec-maven-plugin.version>
         <maven-shade-plugin.version>2.4.1</maven-shade-plugin.version>
         <versions-maven-plugin.version>2.0</versions-maven-plugin.version>
     </properties>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c8c64d391e..a91dc6145a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1271,7 +1271,7 @@
         <!-- plugins -->
         <maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.22.2</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
         <maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.11.0</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
-        <exec-maven-plugin.version>3.0.0</exec-maven-plugin.version>
+        <exec-maven-plugin.version>3.1.0</exec-maven-plugin.version>
         <java.version>1.8</java.version>
         <log4j.version>1.2.17</log4j.version>
         <jmh-core.version>1.36</jmh-core.version>