diff --git a/Kubernetes-examples/pom.xml b/Kubernetes-examples/pom.xml
index 9b5748d9..cc1f268c 100644
--- a/Kubernetes-examples/pom.xml
+++ b/Kubernetes-examples/pom.xml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-            <version>2.7</version>
+            <version>2.16.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>