diff --git a/Visibility-Collection-Validation/Validators/kafka-influx-linker/src/Snap-Kafka-Linker/pom.xml b/Visibility-Collection-Validation/Validators/kafka-influx-linker/src/Snap-Kafka-Linker/pom.xml
index 7db31c2..da62d32 100644
--- a/Visibility-Collection-Validation/Validators/kafka-influx-linker/src/Snap-Kafka-Linker/pom.xml
+++ b/Visibility-Collection-Validation/Validators/kafka-influx-linker/src/Snap-Kafka-Linker/pom.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   	<dependency>
   		<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
   		<artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-  		<version>2.7</version>
+  		<version>2.16.0</version>
   	</dependency>
   	<dependency>
   		<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>