diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7017d06460..59c4623668 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
     <!-- Last GraalVM version to support Java 8 -->
     <graalvm-version>21.3.2.1</graalvm-version>
     <slf4j-version>2.0.9</slf4j-version>
-    <log4j2-version>2.20.0</log4j2-version>
+    <log4j2-version>2.21.0</log4j2-version>
     <spring-version>5.3.30</spring-version>
     <spring-boot-version>2.7.16</spring-boot-version>
     <jackson-version>2.15.2</jackson-version>