diff --git a/log4j-layout-template-json-fuzz-test/pom.xml b/log4j-layout-template-json-fuzz-test/pom.xml
index df7720b3dbe..485aeb4789c 100644
--- a/log4j-layout-template-json-fuzz-test/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-layout-template-json-fuzz-test/pom.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     <sign.skip>true</sign.skip>
 
     <!-- dependency versions -->
-    <json.version>20240303</json.version>
+    <json.version>20241224</json.version>
 
   </properties>
 
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_json_json.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_json_json.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a59737cbfb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_json_json.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="3347" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3347"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.json:json` to version `20241224`</description>
+</entry>