diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 1969bf1f58..ab8b2895f5 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -364,7 +364,9 @@
           <dependency groupId="org.apache.pig" artifactId="pig" version="0.11.1"/>
           <dependency groupId="net.java.dev.jna" artifactId="jna" version="4.0.0"/>
 
-          <dependency groupId="net.sourceforge.cobertura" artifactId="cobertura" version="${cobertura.version}"/>
+          <dependency groupId="net.sourceforge.cobertura" artifactId="cobertura" version="${cobertura.version}">
+            <exclusion groupId="xerces" artifactId="xercesImpl"/>
+          </dependency>
 
           <dependency groupId="org.apache.cassandra" artifactId="cassandra-all" version="${version}" />
           <dependency groupId="org.apache.cassandra" artifactId="cassandra-thrift" version="${version}" />