diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d754cabb394..dc4c8964af6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ Additionally it includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector. CPD finds duplicated code
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>junit</groupId>
                 <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-                <version>4.12</version>
+                <version>4.13.1</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>