diff --git a/packages/internal/distributedWekaHadoopCore/pom.xml b/packages/internal/distributedWekaHadoopCore/pom.xml
index 1759f7d8f..ef5008c42 100644
--- a/packages/internal/distributedWekaHadoopCore/pom.xml
+++ b/packages/internal/distributedWekaHadoopCore/pom.xml
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ This package provides loaders and savers for HDFS, plus Hadoop jobs and tasks th
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <version>4.5</version>
+      <version>4.13.1</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>