diff --git a/apps/baseline-benchmarks/keyvaluestore/pom.xml b/apps/baseline-benchmarks/keyvaluestore/pom.xml
index 68e599d8..f867a973 100644
--- a/apps/baseline-benchmarks/keyvaluestore/pom.xml
+++ b/apps/baseline-benchmarks/keyvaluestore/pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
       <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
-      <version>2.6.2</version>
+      <version>2.8.9</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>