diff --git a/parent/pom.xml b/parent/pom.xml
index 62ab23614bed..94b86317b8ce 100644
--- a/parent/pom.xml
+++ b/parent/pom.xml
@@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@
                  find zkfacade/src/main/java/org/apache/curator -name package-info.java | \
                      xargs perl -pi -e 's/major = [0-9]+, minor = [0-9]+, micro = [0-9]+/major = 5, minor = 3, micro = 0/g'
         -->
-        <bouncycastle.version>1.74</bouncycastle.version>
+        <bouncycastle.version>1.79</bouncycastle.version>
         <curator.version>5.4.0</curator.version>
         <commons-codec.version>1.15</commons-codec.version>
         <commons-io.version>2.11.0</commons-io.version>