diff --git a/ecs-scaling-demo/sqs-reader-task/pom.xml b/ecs-scaling-demo/sqs-reader-task/pom.xml
index 22ef2bd..de62625 100644
--- a/ecs-scaling-demo/sqs-reader-task/pom.xml
+++ b/ecs-scaling-demo/sqs-reader-task/pom.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
 			<artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-			<version>2.5</version>
+			<version>2.17.1</version>
 		</dependency>
 
 	</dependencies>