diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index eb3a4ff..55581a3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
- 		<junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
+ 		<junit.version>4.13.1</junit.version>
  		<servlet-api.version>3.0.1</servlet-api.version>
  		<slf4j.version>1.7.21</slf4j.version>
  		<metrics.version>4.0.2</metrics.version>