diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index aa3b7077f4..0fd51ec50f 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 4.0.2
+ * Update ant-junit to version 1.10.12 (CASSANDRA-17218)
  * Add droppable tombstone metrics to nodetool tablestats (CASSANDRA-16308)
  * Fix disk failure triggered when enabling FQL on an unclean directory (CASSANDRA-17136)
  * Fixed broken classpath when multiple jars in build directory (CASSANDRA-17129)
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 38215dda89..9ea71f7ab4 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@
           <dependency groupId="org.openjdk.jmh" artifactId="jmh-core" version="1.21" scope="test"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.openjdk.jmh" artifactId="jmh-generator-annprocess" version="1.21" scope="test"/>
 
-          <dependency groupId="org.apache.ant" artifactId="ant-junit" version="1.9.7" scope="test"/>
+          <dependency groupId="org.apache.ant" artifactId="ant-junit" version="1.10.12" scope="test"/>
 
           <dependency groupId="org.apache.cassandra" artifactId="cassandra-all" version="${version}" />
           <dependency groupId="io.dropwizard.metrics" artifactId="metrics-core" version="3.1.5" />