diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4938277ea4..563d9deab0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@
         <rhino.version>1.6R7</rhino.version>
         <servlet.api.version>2.3</servlet.api.version>
         <slf4j.version>1.7.22</slf4j.version>
-        <spring.version>2.5.1</spring.version>
+        <spring.version>5.3.2</spring.version>
         <wsdl4j.version>1.6.2</wsdl4j.version>
         <xalan.version>2.7.2</xalan.version>
         <xmlbeans.version>2.6.0</xmlbeans.version>