diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 3dc440a3fc4..d6506c26fd2 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
     <assertj.version>3.27.3</assertj.version>
     <awaitility.version>4.2.2</awaitility.version>
     <bsh.version>2.0b6</bsh.version>
-    <cassandra.version>3.11.17</cassandra.version>
+    <cassandra.version>3.11.18</cassandra.version>
     <cassandra-driver.version>3.11.5</cassandra-driver.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.17.1</commons-codec.version>
     <commons-compress.version>1.27.1</commons-compress.version>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_cassandra_cassandra_all.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_cassandra_cassandra_all.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..01c4737997c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_cassandra_cassandra_all.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="3434" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3434"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all` to version `3.11.18`</description>
+</entry>