diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-collections-maps-6/pom.xml b/core-java-modules/core-java-collections-maps-6/pom.xml
index 8c35dcee6e..0d1732edb4 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-collections-maps-6/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-collections-maps-6/pom.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>4.13.1</version>
+            <version>${junit.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-numbers-conversions/pom.xml b/core-java-modules/core-java-numbers-conversions/pom.xml
index d014675ead..43809e8453 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-numbers-conversions/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-numbers-conversions/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>4.13.2</version>
+            <version>${junit.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
diff --git a/maven-modules/dependency-exclusion/pom.xml b/maven-modules/dependency-exclusion/pom.xml
index 6e348377b0..6a491e552f 100644
--- a/maven-modules/dependency-exclusion/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-modules/dependency-exclusion/pom.xml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>junit</groupId>
                 <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-                <version>4.13</version>
+                <version>${junit.version}</version>
             </dependency>
         </dependencies>
     </dependencyManagement>
diff --git a/microservices-modules/rest-express/pom.xml b/microservices-modules/rest-express/pom.xml
index 182d14cfbf..1b22bb8117 100644
--- a/microservices-modules/rest-express/pom.xml
+++ b/microservices-modules/rest-express/pom.xml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>${junit4.version}</version>
+            <version>${junit.version}</version>
             <type>jar</type>
             <scope>test</scope>
             <optional>true</optional>
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@
         <RestExpress.version>0.11.3</RestExpress.version>
         <Syntaxe.version>1.0</Syntaxe.version>
         <repoexpress-mongodb.version>0.4.8</repoexpress-mongodb.version>
-        <junit4.version>4.11</junit4.version>
         <maven-shade-plugin.version>2.4.1</maven-shade-plugin.version>
         <versions-maven-plugin.version>2.0</versions-maven-plugin.version>
     </properties>