diff --git a/tika-parent/pom.xml b/tika-parent/pom.xml
index 26fadc472f..c61bb2a3ae 100644
--- a/tika-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/tika-parent/pom.xml
@@ -449,7 +449,6 @@
     <xmpcore.version>6.1.11</xmpcore.version>
     <!-- This has to be < 3.9 to work with Solr 8's integration tests (doesn't fail on windows) -->
     <zookeeper.version>3.8.4</zookeeper.version>
-    <logback.version>1.5.12</logback.version>
     <zstd.version>1.5.6-7</zstd.version>
     <nimbus-jose-jwt.version>9.45</nimbus-jose-jwt.version>
     <javacpp.version>1.5.10</javacpp.version>
@@ -1004,17 +1003,6 @@
         <artifactId>maven-plugin-annotations</artifactId>
         <version>${maven.plugin.annotations.version}</version>
       </dependency>
-      <!-- for zookeeper to avoid CVE-2023-6378 -->
-      <dependency>
-          <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
-          <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
-          <version>${logback.version}</version>
-      </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-          <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
-          <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
-          <version>${logback.version}</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.bytedeco</groupId>
           <artifactId>hdf5</artifactId>