diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c1a7f67e1..cc586d653 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -933,12 +933,6 @@
                 <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
                 <version>4.4</version>
             </dependency>
-            <!-- it's a dependency of Velocity defined here to override the transitive one -->
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
-                <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
-                <version>3.2.2</version>
-            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
                 <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>