diff --git a/java/jdbc/pom.xml b/java/jdbc/pom.xml
index ee38fba6681..9f316a2aa2b 100644
--- a/java/jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/java/jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
-      <version>2.6</version>
+      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
+      <version>3.19.0</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
diff --git a/java/jdbc/src/main/java/io/vitess/jdbc/VitessMySQLDatabaseMetadata.java b/java/jdbc/src/main/java/io/vitess/jdbc/VitessMySQLDatabaseMetadata.java
index 1f4e33585f3..baaf80ca22c 100644
--- a/java/jdbc/src/main/java/io/vitess/jdbc/VitessMySQLDatabaseMetadata.java
+++ b/java/jdbc/src/main/java/io/vitess/jdbc/VitessMySQLDatabaseMetadata.java
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 import io.vitess.util.Constants;
 import io.vitess.util.MysqlDefs;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 
 import java.sql.Connection;
 import java.sql.DatabaseMetaData;