diff --git a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/pom.xml b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/pom.xml
index 96a9d8cf62d..fcac6f3292f 100644
--- a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/pom.xml
+++ b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/pom.xml
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
                             <dependency>
                                 <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
                                 <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
-                                <version>2.4.21</version>
+                                <version>3.0.25</version>
                             </dependency>
                         </dependencies>
                         <executions>