diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index dacd9c4094..f2c9725ac8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ Additionally it includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector. CPD finds duplicated code
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
                 <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-                <version>2.4</version>
+                <version>2.6</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>