diff --git a/Consumer/pom.xml b/Consumer/pom.xml
index c4561c5..711f908 100644
--- a/Consumer/pom.xml
+++ b/Consumer/pom.xml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 		    <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
 		    <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-		    <version>2.11.1</version>
+		    <version>2.16.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.logging.log4j/log4j-core -->
 		<dependency>