diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 27effb5ffe0f..1e0999d0f9cb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
     <commons-logging.version>1.1.3</commons-logging.version>
     <derby.version>10.10.1.1</derby.version>
     <guava.version>11.0.2</guava.version>
-    <groovy.version>2.1.6</groovy.version>
+    <groovy.version>2.4.21</groovy.version>
     <hadoop-20.version>0.20.2</hadoop-20.version>
     <hadoop-20S.version>1.2.1</hadoop-20S.version>
     <hadoop-23.version>2.3.0</hadoop-23.version>