diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c80a95114..4aea194d7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 		<springdata.solr>4.3.2-SNAPSHOT</springdata.solr>
 		<springdata.cassandra>3.1.3-SNAPSHOT</springdata.cassandra>
 		<springdata.keyvalue>2.4.3-SNAPSHOT</springdata.keyvalue>
+		<servlet.version>4.0.1</servlet.version>
 
 		<hibernate.version>5.4.8.Final</hibernate.version>
 		<jsonpath>1.1.0</jsonpath>
diff --git a/spring-data-rest-hal-explorer/pom.xml b/spring-data-rest-hal-explorer/pom.xml
index 06394d59e..b16618503 100644
--- a/spring-data-rest-hal-explorer/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-data-rest-hal-explorer/pom.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
 			<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
-			<version>3.0.1</version>
+			<version>${servlet.version}</version>
 			<scope>provided</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
diff --git a/spring-data-rest-tests/pom.xml b/spring-data-rest-tests/pom.xml
index f5f3a9cbe..c5acf2b37 100644
--- a/spring-data-rest-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-data-rest-tests/pom.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
 			<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
-			<version>3.0.1</version>
+			<version>${servlet.version}</version>
 			<scope>provided</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
diff --git a/spring-data-rest-tests/spring-data-rest-tests-core/pom.xml b/spring-data-rest-tests/spring-data-rest-tests-core/pom.xml
index e45c2f866..1c0223b2d 100644
--- a/spring-data-rest-tests/spring-data-rest-tests-core/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-data-rest-tests/spring-data-rest-tests-core/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
 			<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
-			<version>3.0.1</version>
+			<version>${servlet.version}</version>
 			<scope>provided</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
diff --git a/spring-data-rest-webmvc/pom.xml b/spring-data-rest-webmvc/pom.xml
index 1d0b71ad2..e76736b67 100644
--- a/spring-data-rest-webmvc/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-data-rest-webmvc/pom.xml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
 			<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
-			<version>3.0.1</version>
+			<version>${servlet.version}</version>
 			<scope>provided</scope>
 		</dependency>