diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 08d6dc3412da..6fd9eb6f223f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
     <commons-logging.version>1.1.3</commons-logging.version>
     <commons-pool.version>1.5.4</commons-pool.version>
     <commons-dbcp.version>1.4</commons-dbcp.version>
-    <derby.version>10.11.1.1</derby.version>
+    <derby.version>10.17.1.0</derby.version>
     <guava.version>14.0.1</guava.version>
     <groovy.version>2.1.6</groovy.version>
     <hadoop-20S.version>1.2.1</hadoop-20S.version>