diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml
index ae22e2e4..c972b61c 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-      <version>2.15.1</version>
+      <version>2.16.1</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>