diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7c2551a5..abc0ca25 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 		<guice.version>4.2.0</guice.version>
 		<jetty.version>9.4.12.v20180830</jetty.version>
 		<wicket.orientdb.version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</wicket.orientdb.version>
-		<log4j2.version>2.15.0</log4j2.version>
+		<log4j2.version>2.17.1</log4j2.version>
 		<enableAssertions>false</enableAssertions>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<!-- allowed values: R7, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 or none -->