diff --git a/tokenization/java/pom.xml b/tokenization/java/pom.xml
index cdd3be6a..8ca7f986 100644
--- a/tokenization/java/pom.xml
+++ b/tokenization/java/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     <dependency>
         <groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
         <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
-        <version>2.4.0</version>
+        <version>2.9.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-codec/commons-codec -->
     <dependency>