diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f0a5ca7248..7555766944 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@
 		<maven_source_plugin_version>2.4</maven_source_plugin_version>
 		<phloc_schematron_version>2.7.1</phloc_schematron_version>
 		<phloc_commons_version>4.4.11</phloc_commons_version>
-		<spring_version>4.3.10.RELEASE</spring_version>
+		<spring_version>5.2.22.RELEASE</spring_version>
 		<thymeleaf-version>3.0.7.RELEASE</thymeleaf-version>
 
 		<!-- We are aiming to still work on a very old version of SLF4j even though we depend on the newest, just to be nice to users of the API. This version is tested in the hapi-fhir-cobertura. -->