diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index 48caa6ca183d3..28b3c867a356b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -207,17 +207,6 @@
       <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-      <exclusions>
-       <exclusion>
-          <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
-          <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-configuration2</artifactId>
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index a912cf9f69142..e17568a8e6cf2 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -118,7 +118,6 @@
     <ldap-api.version>2.0.0</ldap-api.version>
 
     <!-- Apache Commons dependencies -->
-    <commons-beanutils.version>1.9.4</commons-beanutils.version>
     <commons-cli.version>1.9.0</commons-cli.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.15</commons-codec.version>
     <commons-collections4.version>4.4</commons-collections4.version>
@@ -1285,11 +1284,6 @@
         <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
         <version>${commons-collections4.version}</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
-        <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
-        <version>${commons-beanutils.version}</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-configuration2</artifactId>
@@ -1675,10 +1669,6 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
             <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
           </exclusion>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
           <exclusion>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>