diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2f9539c..4a52064 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <spring.version>4.2.4.RELEASE</spring.version>
+        <spring.version>5.3.18</spring.version>
         <commons-lang3.version>3.4</commons-lang3.version>
         <slf4j-log4j12.version>1.6.6</slf4j-log4j12.version>
         <commons-collections.version>3.2.1</commons-collections.version>