diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8ca742e8c63cf..d707bbb267f19 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ under the License.
 		<flink.markBundledAsOptional>true</flink.markBundledAsOptional>
 		<target.java.version>1.8</target.java.version>
 		<slf4j.version>1.7.36</slf4j.version>
-		<log4j.version>2.17.1</log4j.version>
+		<log4j.version>2.25.3</log4j.version>
 		<!-- Overwrite default values from parent pom.
 			 IntelliJ IDEA is (sometimes?) using those values to choose target language level
 			 and thus is changing back to java 1.6 on each maven re-import -->