diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/PR#4020-update-org-apache-commons-commons-exec.yml b/changelog/unreleased/PR#4020-update-org-apache-commons-commons-exec.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..eed3b5ac6755
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/PR#4020-update-org-apache-commons-commons-exec.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+title: Update org.apache.commons:commons-exec to v1.6.0
+type: dependency_update
+authors:
+- name: solrbot
+links:
+- name: PR#4020
+  url: https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/4020
diff --git a/versions.props b/versions.props
index b95645350ce2..48a4c318e5c2 100644
--- a/versions.props
+++ b/versions.props
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ org.apache.calcite:*=1.37.0
 org.apache.commons:commons-collections4=4.5.0
 org.apache.commons:commons-compress=1.28.0
 org.apache.commons:commons-configuration2=2.12.0
-org.apache.commons:commons-exec=1.5.0
+org.apache.commons:commons-exec=1.6.0
 org.apache.commons:commons-lang3=3.19.0
 org.apache.commons:commons-math3=3.6.1
 org.apache.curator:*=5.9.0