diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fecc82b60..9998fc3bd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
-			<version>1.6</version>
+			<version>1.21.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jsoup/jsoup -->
 		<dependency>