diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index cc362ad..086b4b9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@
 		<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
  		<aspectj.version>1.9.4</aspectj.version>
  		<commons-lang3.version>3.5</commons-lang3.version>
- 		<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>4.1.1</metrics.version>