diff --git a/src/etc/poms/ant-apache-bcel/pom.xml b/src/etc/poms/ant-apache-bcel/pom.xml
index ea119d572e..17a837c824 100644
--- a/src/etc/poms/ant-apache-bcel/pom.xml
+++ b/src/etc/poms/ant-apache-bcel/pom.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.bcel</groupId>
       <artifactId>bcel</artifactId>
-      <version>6.7.0</version>
+      <version>6.9.0</version>
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>