diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index eca8bb7ca65..770484d00cb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
         <equalsverifier.version>3.15.1</equalsverifier.version>
         <!-- Update netty-open-ssl-version accordingly whenever we update netty version-->
         <!-- https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/4.1/pom.xml search "tcnative.version" -->
-        <netty.version>4.1.132.Final</netty.version>
+        <netty.version>4.2.12.Final</netty.version>
         <unitils.version>3.4.6</unitils.version>
         <xmlunit.version>1.3</xmlunit.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>