diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 6e69d21286f..ef906e32791 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
     <commons-codec.version>1.17.1</commons-codec.version>
     <commons-csv.version>1.12.0</commons-csv.version>
     <commons-dbcp2.version>2.12.0</commons-dbcp2.version>
-    <commons-io.version>2.17.0</commons-io.version>
+    <commons-io.version>2.18.0</commons-io.version>
     <commons-lang3.version>3.17.0</commons-lang3.version>
     <disruptor.version>4.0.0</disruptor.version>
     <embedded-ldap.version>0.9.0</embedded-ldap.version>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons_io_commons_io.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons_io_commons_io.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3ac49309f40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons_io_commons_io.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="3222" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3222"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `commons-io:commons-io` to version `2.18.0`</description>
+</entry>