diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 30cf9f93..5e3d0b61 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
         <woodstox.version>4.2.0</woodstox.version>
         <wsdl4j.version>1.6.3</wsdl4j.version>
         <wss4j.version>2.4.1</wss4j.version>
-        <xmlsec.version>2.3.0</xmlsec.version>
+        <xmlsec.version>2.3.1</xmlsec.version>
         <xml-schema-core.version>2.2.2</xml-schema-core.version>
         <xmlunit1.version>1.6</xmlunit1.version>
         <xmlunit.version>2.7.0</xmlunit.version>