diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fec7241..75f5201 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <pippo.version>1.12.0</pippo.version>
         <guice.version>4.1.0</guice.version>
-        <log4j.version>2.7</log4j.version>
+        <log4j.version>2.16.0</log4j.version>
         <lombok.version>1.18.2</lombok.version>
         <solr.version>7.7.2</solr.version>
         <gson.version>2.8.6</gson.version>