diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 535ff5ac..623eba34 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
             <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-            <version>4.4.1</version>
+            <version>4.5.14</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- semantic versioning annotations -->