diff --git a/flink-connectors/flink-connector-hive/pom.xml b/flink-connectors/flink-connector-hive/pom.xml
index 80011b55b979f..c189f7d6ccd33 100644
--- a/flink-connectors/flink-connector-hive/pom.xml
+++ b/flink-connectors/flink-connector-hive/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ under the License.
 		<hiverunner.version>4.0.0</hiverunner.version>
 		<reflections.version>0.9.8</reflections.version>
 		<derby.version>10.10.2.0</derby.version>
-		<hive.avro.version>1.8.2</hive.avro.version>
+		<hive.avro.version>1.11.5</hive.avro.version>
 		<!--
 		Hive requires Hadoop 2 to avoid
 		java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/metrics/Updater errors