diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c3fc9d5c..e2f5cb2b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <java.version>1.8</java.version>
-        <apache-commons.version>3.1</apache-commons.version>
+        <apache-commons.version>3.18.0</apache-commons.version>
         <assertj-core.version>3.9.1</assertj-core.version>
         <assertj-swing.version>3.8.0</assertj-swing.version>