diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c74674a72f83..e4b02eefc1c0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@
     <commons-collections4.version>4.4</commons-collections4.version>
     <commons-compress.version>1.26.0</commons-compress.version>
     <commons-configuration.version>1.10</commons-configuration.version>
+    <commons-configuration2.version>2.15.0</commons-configuration2.version>
     <commons-exec.version>1.1</commons-exec.version>
     <commons-io.version>2.16.1</commons-io.version>
     <commons-lang3.version>3.17.0</commons-lang3.version>
diff --git a/ql/pom.xml b/ql/pom.xml
index 405914d0ce48..4f865038e67d 100644
--- a/ql/pom.xml
+++ b/ql/pom.xml
@@ -110,6 +110,11 @@
       <artifactId>commons-configuration</artifactId>
       <version>${commons-configuration.version}</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-configuration2</artifactId>
+      <version>${commons-configuration2.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-dbcp2</artifactId>