diff --git a/hetu-hbase/pom.xml b/hetu-hbase/pom.xml
index e1f64269f..ee6ef5aa8 100644
--- a/hetu-hbase/pom.xml
+++ b/hetu-hbase/pom.xml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <air.main.basedir>${project.parent.basedir}</air.main.basedir>
+        <dep.log4j.version>2.17.1</dep.log4j.version>
         <version.annotations>13.0</version.annotations>
         <version.validation-api>2.0.1.Final</version.validation-api>
         <version.commons-lang3>3.10</version.commons-lang3>
@@ -223,8 +224,28 @@
                     <artifactId>jetty-webapp</artifactId>
                     <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+                    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${dep.log4j.version}</version>
+            <scope>runtime</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${dep.log4j.version}</version>
+            <scope>runtime</scope>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
             <artifactId>jetty-webapp</artifactId>
@@ -262,6 +283,14 @@
                     <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
                     <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+                    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
diff --git a/presto-elasticsearch/pom.xml b/presto-elasticsearch/pom.xml
index c947b8fa6..5c7ef6cb6 100644
--- a/presto-elasticsearch/pom.xml
+++ b/presto-elasticsearch/pom.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <air.main.basedir>${project.parent.basedir}</air.main.basedir>
-        <dep.log4j.version>2.17.0</dep.log4j.version>
+        <dep.log4j.version>2.17.1</dep.log4j.version>
         <dep.elasticsearch.version>6.0.0</dep.elasticsearch.version>
         <httpcore-nio.version>4.4.5</httpcore-nio.version>
     </properties>