diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8b68ca371..fe902836b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
                 <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
-                <version>4.2</version>
+                <version>4.4</version>
             </dependency>
             <!-- it's a dependency of Velocity defined here to override the transitive one -->
             <dependency>