diff --git a/mc-agent-core/pom.xml b/mc-agent-core/pom.xml
index 9b85278..43f4c45 100644
--- a/mc-agent-core/pom.xml
+++ b/mc-agent-core/pom.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <servlet.version>3.0.1</servlet.version>
         <log4j.version>1.2.17</log4j.version>
-        <log4j.api.version>2.0</log4j.api.version>
+        <log4j.api.version>2.16.0</log4j.api.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>