diff --git a/log4j-cassandra/pom.xml b/log4j-cassandra/pom.xml
index eb914cf0e28..209da9734ca 100644
--- a/log4j-cassandra/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-cassandra/pom.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     <!-- at least this version has one CVE less than the one suggested by Cassandra -->
     <guava.version>25.1-jre</guava.version>
     <!-- Pinned transitive dependencies for reproducibility between Linux and MacOS -->
-    <jnr-ffi.version>2.2.16</jnr-ffi.version>
+    <jnr-ffi.version>2.2.17</jnr-ffi.version>
     <snappy.version>1.1.10.7</snappy.version>
   </properties>
 
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com_github_jnr_jnr_ffi.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com_github_jnr_jnr_ffi.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0484a6ba498
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com_github_jnr_jnr_ffi.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="3082" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3082"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.github.jnr:jnr-ffi` to version `2.2.17`</description>
+</entry>