diff --git a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-ecs-logging-plugin/pom.xml b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-ecs-logging-plugin/pom.xml
index e113a77dbc..1396b501fe 100644
--- a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-ecs-logging-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-ecs-logging-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-            <version>2.21.1</version>
+            <version>2.22.0</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
             <optional>true</optional>
         </dependency>
diff --git a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-logging-plugin/apm-log4j2-plugin/pom.xml b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-logging-plugin/apm-log4j2-plugin/pom.xml
index c451912c19..6c7239bf8a 100644
--- a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-logging-plugin/apm-log4j2-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-logging-plugin/apm-log4j2-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-            <version>2.21.1</version>
+            <version>2.22.0</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>