diff --git a/spring-cloud-contract-shade/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-contract-shade/pom.xml
index 875630a8aa..a0d761916f 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-contract-shade/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-contract-shade/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 		<guava.version>30.0-jre</guava.version>
 		<asm.version>9.4</asm.version>
 		<checker.version>3.25.0</checker.version>
-		<maven-dependency-plugin.version>3.1.2</maven-dependency-plugin.version>
+		<maven-dependency-plugin.version>3.6.0</maven-dependency-plugin.version>
 		<build-helper-maven-plugin.version>3.0.0</build-helper-maven-plugin.version>
 		<plexus-utils.version>3.5.0</plexus-utils.version>
 		<apache-client.version>4.5.13</apache-client.version>