diff --git a/ubenchmark/pom.xml b/ubenchmark/pom.xml
index 0b7c7b77e0..17e69832c9 100644
--- a/ubenchmark/pom.xml
+++ b/ubenchmark/pom.xml
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
                 <dependency>
                   <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
                   <artifactId>plexus-archiver</artifactId>
-                  <version>2.4.4</version>
+                  <version>3.6.0</version>
                   <!-- newer versions fail as described in http://stackoverflow.com/a/36605759/1261287
                        Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1
                         at org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.zip.AbstractZipArchiver.<clinit>(AbstractZipArchiver.java:116)
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
                 <dependency>
                   <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
                   <artifactId>plexus-archiver</artifactId>
-                  <version>2.4.4</version>
+                  <version>3.6.0</version>
                 </dependency>
               </dependencies>
             </plugin>
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
                 <dependency>
                   <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
                   <artifactId>plexus-archiver</artifactId>
-                  <version>2.4.4</version>
+                  <version>3.6.0</version>
                 </dependency>
               </dependencies>
             </plugin>