diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 23433ea..f685b67 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 		<gson.version>2.8.6</gson.version>
 		<libtxref.version>1.0.0</libtxref.version>
 
-		<apache.log4j.version>2.15.0</apache.log4j.version>
+		<apache.log4j.version>2.16.0</apache.log4j.version>
 		<commons-codec.version>1.14</commons-codec.version>
 		<commons-io.version>2.7</commons-io.version>
 		<commons.lang3.version>3.10</commons.lang3.version>