diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a68cf070a62..e1252178100 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -852,7 +852,7 @@
     <commons-cli.version>1.2</commons-cli.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.7</commons-codec.version>
     <!-- pretty outdated -->
-    <commons-io.version>2.4</commons-io.version>
+    <commons-io.version>2.7</commons-io.version>
     <commons-lang.version>2.6</commons-lang.version>
     <commons-logging.version>1.1.1</commons-logging.version>
     <commons-math.version>2.1</commons-math.version>