diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index dae5eb00701..045aa3403f4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
     <!-- for now, not running scalafmt as part of default verify pipeline -->
     <scalafmt.skip>true</scalafmt.skip>
     <codehaus.jackson.version>1.9.13</codehaus.jackson.version>
-    <fasterxml.jackson.version>2.9.9</fasterxml.jackson.version>
+    <fasterxml.jackson.version>2.12.1</fasterxml.jackson.version>
     <snappy.version>1.1.7.3</snappy.version>
     <netlib.java.version>1.1.2</netlib.java.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.10</commons-codec.version>