diff --git a/txeventq/kafka-connector-example/kafka_client/pom.xml b/txeventq/kafka-connector-example/kafka_client/pom.xml
index f51dcd27..a9ec4194 100644
--- a/txeventq/kafka-connector-example/kafka_client/pom.xml
+++ b/txeventq/kafka-connector-example/kafka_client/pom.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 	<dependency>
     	<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
     	<artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-    	<version>2.18.0</version>
+    	<version>2.25.3</version>
 	</dependency>
 	<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.googlecode.json-simple/json-simple -->
 	<dependency>