diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
index 9dbc766a..2878e267 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-      <version>3.8.1</version>
+      <version>3.12.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>