diff --git a/buildtools/pom.xml b/buildtools/pom.xml
index 23ac18c9547f7..f3b0c9f72ebf4 100644
--- a/buildtools/pom.xml
+++ b/buildtools/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache</groupId>
     <artifactId>apache</artifactId>
     <version>23</version>
-    <relativePath></relativePath>
+    <relativePath/>
   </parent>
 
   <groupId>com.datastax.oss</groupId>
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     <log4j2.version>2.18.0</log4j2.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.32</slf4j.version>
     <testng.version>7.3.0</testng.version>
-    <commons-lang3.version>3.11</commons-lang3.version>
+    <commons-lang3.version>3.18.0</commons-lang3.version>
     <maven-shade-plugin.version>3.4.0</maven-shade-plugin.version>
     <puppycrawl.checkstyle.version>8.37</puppycrawl.checkstyle.version>
     <maven-checkstyle-plugin.version>3.1.2</maven-checkstyle-plugin.version>
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     <guava.version>32.0.0-jre</guava.version>
     <ant.version>1.10.12</ant.version>
     <snakeyaml.version>2.0</snakeyaml.version>
-    <test.additional.args></test.additional.args>
+    <test.additional.args/>
     <mockito.version>3.12.4</mockito.version>
   </properties>