diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 7335b8f77..f678928ea 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ configurations.all {
         force 'commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:1.9.4'
         force 'com.google.guava:guava:30.0-jre'
         force 'com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle:8.29'
-        force 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.13'
+        force 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.17.2'
         force "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:${versions.jackson_databind}"
         force "org.yaml:snakeyaml:${versions.snakeyaml}"
         force 'org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils:3.0.24'