diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index aed43ee3d..16e5660fc 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -40,10 +40,11 @@
     <commonscodec.version>1.15</commonscodec.version>
     <commonscollections.version>3.2.2</commonscollections.version>
     <commonscompress.version>1.26.0</commonscompress.version>
+    <commonsconfiguration2.version>2.10.1</commonsconfiguration2.version>
     <commonsio.version>2.15.1</commonsio.version>
     <commonslang3.version>3.14.0</commonslang3.version>
-    <commonslogging.version>1.2</commonslogging.version>
-    <commonstext.version>1.10.0</commonstext.version>
+    <commonslogging.version>1.3</commonslogging.version>
+    <commonstext.version>1.11.0</commonstext.version>
     <fasterxml.version>2.14.0</fasterxml.version>
     <guava.version>32.0.1-jre</guava.version>
     <hadoop.version>3.3.6</hadoop.version>
@@ -138,6 +139,11 @@
         <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
         <version>${commonscompress.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+        <artifactId>commons-configuration2</artifactId>
+        <version>${commonsconfiguration2.version}</version>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
@@ -445,6 +451,12 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!-- Transitive dependency; declared here to use a specific version -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-configuration2</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>