diff --git a/java/cloud-fund-demo-java/cloud-fund-backend/pom.xml b/java/cloud-fund-demo-java/cloud-fund-backend/pom.xml
index 254d41c..362a51d 100644
--- a/java/cloud-fund-demo-java/cloud-fund-backend/pom.xml
+++ b/java/cloud-fund-demo-java/cloud-fund-backend/pom.xml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-            <version>2.3</version>
+            <version>2.16.0</version>
         </dependency>
 		
 		<!-- JMS and MQ dependencies -->