diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 05f3eb4..9bcad29 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 		<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<slf4j.version>1.7.32</slf4j.version>
-		<log4j.version>2.17.1</log4j.version>
+		<log4j.version>2.25.3</log4j.version>
 		<jodatime.version>2.10.13</jodatime.version>
 		<netcdf.version>4.6.16</netcdf.version>
 		<guava.version>32.0.0-jre</guava.version>