diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index af073aeff5490..71d449f0bda9c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ under the License.
 		<source.java.version>11</source.java.version>
 		<target.java.version>17</target.java.version>
 		<slf4j.version>1.7.36</slf4j.version>
-		<log4j.version>2.25.3</log4j.version>
+		<log4j.version>2.25.4</log4j.version>
 		<!-- Overwrite default values from parent pom.
 			 IntelliJ IDEA is (sometimes?) using those values to choose target language level
 			 and thus is changing back to java 1.6 on each maven re-import -->