diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 868a50db..05781ceb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <ch.qos.logback.version>1.1.2</ch.qos.logback.version>
         <com.fasterxml.jackson.version>2.4.0</com.fasterxml.jackson.version>
-        <commons.io.version>2.4</commons.io.version>
+        <commons.io.version>2.7</commons.io.version>
         <commons.lang.version>2.6</commons.lang.version>
         <junit.version>4.11</junit.version>
         <org.hamcrest.version>1.3</org.hamcrest.version>