diff --git a/apps/baseline-benchmarks/keyvaluestore/pom.xml b/apps/baseline-benchmarks/keyvaluestore/pom.xml
index 68e599d8..a52871d7 100644
--- a/apps/baseline-benchmarks/keyvaluestore/pom.xml
+++ b/apps/baseline-benchmarks/keyvaluestore/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
       <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-      <version>4.5.2</version>
+      <version>4.5.13</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>