diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 26a13e4..85023e5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
             <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-            <version>4.5.3</version>
+            <version>4.5.13</version>
             <exclusions>
                 <!-- Exclusion in order to use logback in the place of commons-logging -->
                 <exclusion>