diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c0163fe3a26..e683d2342bb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@
     <project.build.outputTimestamp>2024-11-09T05:50:28Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
 
     <!-- Version of Log4j API required -->
-    <log4j-api.version>2.24.1</log4j-api.version>
+    <log4j-api.version>2.24.2</log4j-api.version>
 
     <!-- ========================
          Site-specific properties
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org_apache_logging_log4j_log4j_api.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org_apache_logging_log4j_log4j_api.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1a0eb5a56ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org_apache_logging_log4j_log4j_api.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="3229" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3229"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api` to version `2.24.2`</description>
+</entry>