diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 7c74615dbce4c..0239237442043 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@
     <solr.version>7.7.0</solr.version>
     <openssl-wildfly.version>1.0.7.Final</openssl-wildfly.version>
     <jsonschema2pojo.version>1.0.2</jsonschema2pojo.version>
+    <woodstox.version>5.3.0</woodstox.version>
   </properties>
 
   <dependencyManagement>
@@ -1132,7 +1133,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.fasterxml.woodstox</groupId>
         <artifactId>woodstox-core</artifactId>
-        <version>5.0.3</version>
+        <version>${woodstox.version}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>