diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a2d4243..1de34e3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
       <dependency>
       	<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       	<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-      	<version>3.5</version>
+      	<version>3.18.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-codec/commons-codec -->
       <dependency>