diff --git a/occurrence-download/pom.xml b/occurrence-download/pom.xml
index 9535a5fb4..a8415844a 100644
--- a/occurrence-download/pom.xml
+++ b/occurrence-download/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <properties>
     <hadoop-compress.version>2.0.1</hadoop-compress.version>
     <metrics-core.version>4.2.37</metrics-core.version>
-    <log4j.version>2.20.0</log4j.version>
+    <log4j.version>2.25.3</log4j.version>
     <brickhouse.version>0.6.0</brickhouse.version>
     <akka-actor.version>2.6.19</akka-actor.version>
     <es.httpclient.version>4.5.10</es.httpclient.version>