diff --git a/quickstart-kafka/pom.xml b/quickstart-kafka/pom.xml
index 363b79b..e5307b5 100644
--- a/quickstart-kafka/pom.xml
+++ b/quickstart-kafka/pom.xml
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-            <version>2.14.1</version>
+            <version>2.16.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <!--log4j2 end-->