diff --git a/apps/cassandra/cassandra-log4j2-appender/pom.xml b/apps/cassandra/cassandra-log4j2-appender/pom.xml
index 0324e6b..f658546 100644
--- a/apps/cassandra/cassandra-log4j2-appender/pom.xml
+++ b/apps/cassandra/cassandra-log4j2-appender/pom.xml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
     <dependency>
     <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-      <version>2.3</version>
+      <version>2.16.0</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>