diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d505d2d6e..40ca3563e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <java.version>1.8</java.version>
         <axis2.version>1.6.4</axis2.version>
-        <slf4j.version>2.0.0</slf4j.version>
+        <slf4j.version>2.0.5</slf4j.version>
         <junit.version>4.13.2</junit.version>
         <commons-lang3.version>3.12.0</commons-lang3.version>
         <simple-xml.version>2.7.1</simple-xml.version>