diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8773d90..ec980c8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -72,13 +72,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-shared-utils</artifactId>
-      <version>3.0.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <!-- Upgrade of transitive dependency of maven-shared-utils. -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-      <version>2.5</version>
+      <version>3.1.0</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <!-- dependencies to annotations -->