diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 040a0a0dbc..fd1e74009b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ Additionally it includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector. CPD finds duplicated code
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId>
                 <artifactId>asm</artifactId>
-                <version>7.0</version>
+                <version>7.1</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>