diff --git a/.build/dependency-check-suppressions.xml b/.build/dependency-check-suppressions.xml
index 0003951687..7633085a82 100644
--- a/.build/dependency-check-suppressions.xml
+++ b/.build/dependency-check-suppressions.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
         <cve>CVE-2018-8016</cve>
         <cve>CVE-2020-13946</cve>
         <cve>CVE-2020-17516</cve>
+        <cve>CVE-2021-44521</cve>
     </suppress>
     <suppress>
         <!-- dependency checker identified this as a completely different package (wire) -->
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index cc23bc36ef..e8bc60bb72 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
  * GossiperTest.testHasVersion3Nodes didn't take into account trunk version changes, fixed to rely on latest version (CASSANDRA-16651)
  * Update JNA library to 5.9.0 and snappy-java to version 1.1.8.4 (CASSANDRA-17040)
 Merged from 4.0:
+ * Suppress CVE-2021-44521 from driver (CASSANDRA-17459)
  * Upgrade jackson to 2.13.2 (CASSANDRA-17460)
  * Make sstableloader honour native port option (CASSANDRA-17210)
  * Reject snapshot names with special character (CASSANDRA-15297)