diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index e74b728aadd..fe51139b8c6 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
     <assertj.version>3.27.2</assertj.version>
     <awaitility.version>4.2.2</awaitility.version>
     <bsh.version>2.0b6</bsh.version>
-    <commons-codec.version>1.17.1</commons-codec.version>
+    <commons-codec.version>1.17.2</commons-codec.version>
     <commons-csv.version>1.12.0</commons-csv.version>
     <commons-dbcp2.version>2.13.0</commons-dbcp2.version>
     <commons-io.version>2.18.0</commons-io.version>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons_codec_commons_codec.xml b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons_codec_commons_codec.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fcb86e9bd14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.3.x.x/update_commons_codec_commons_codec.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="3370" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3370"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `commons-codec:commons-codec` to version `1.17.2`</description>
+</entry>