diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 0ef4612bf4c..6762694eebd 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
     <osgi.framework.version>1.10.0</osgi.framework.version>
     <osgi.resource.version>1.0.1</osgi.resource.version>
     <pax-exam.version>4.14.0</pax-exam.version>
-    <plexus-utils.version>3.5.1</plexus-utils.version>
+    <plexus-utils.version>3.6.0</plexus-utils.version>
     <system-stubs.version>2.1.7</system-stubs.version>
     <velocity.version>1.7</velocity.version>
     <xmlunit.version>2.10.0</xmlunit.version>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org_codehaus_plexus_plexus_utils.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org_codehaus_plexus_plexus_utils.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6bc97433793
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_org_codehaus_plexus_plexus_utils.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="3294" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3294"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils` to version `3.6.0`</description>
+</entry>