diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 38f06ca8c..8202bfe30 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     <surefire.version>2.19.1</surefire.version>
     <commons-logging.version>1.1.1</commons-logging.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.12</slf4j.version>
-    <spring.version>2.5.6</spring.version>
+    <spring.version>5.2.20.RELEASE</spring.version>
     <servlet-api.version>2.4</servlet-api.version>
     <jsp-api.version>2.0</jsp-api.version>
     <aopalliance.version>1.0</aopalliance.version>