diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 8302fab4d2f..91c03379e85 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
     <commons-compress.version>1.27.1</commons-compress.version>
     <commons-csv.version>1.14.0</commons-csv.version>
     <commons-dbcp2.version>2.13.0</commons-dbcp2.version>
-    <commons-io.version>2.19.0</commons-io.version>
+    <commons-io.version>2.20.0</commons-io.version>
     <commons-lang3.version>3.17.0</commons-lang3.version>
     <commons-logging.version>1.3.5</commons-logging.version>
     <!-- `com.conversantmedia:disruptor` version 1.2.16 requires Java 9: -->
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_commons_io_commons_io.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_commons_io_commons_io.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..57e60737262
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_commons_io_commons_io.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="3846" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3846"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `commons-io:commons-io` to version `2.20.0`</description>
+</entry>