diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index c71e61500a7c3..2f0ceaae3ac8e 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
     <guava.version>27.0-jre</guava.version>
     <guice.version>5.1.0</guice.version>
 
-    <bouncycastle.version>1.78.1</bouncycastle.version>
+    <bouncycastle.version>1.79</bouncycastle.version>
 
     <!-- Required for testing LDAP integration -->
     <apacheds.version>2.0.0.AM27</apacheds.version>