diff --git a/bridge-adapters/kinetic-bridgehub-adapter-generic-rest/pom.xml b/bridge-adapters/kinetic-bridgehub-adapter-generic-rest/pom.xml
index 0a750b2..b7f4ca0 100644
--- a/bridge-adapters/kinetic-bridgehub-adapter-generic-rest/pom.xml
+++ b/bridge-adapters/kinetic-bridgehub-adapter-generic-rest/pom.xml
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-            <version>2.11.2</version>
+            <version>2.12.4</version>
             <type>jar</type>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>