diff --git a/dspace-oai/pom.xml b/dspace-oai/pom.xml
index af89005ee..68c267db8 100644
--- a/dspace-oai/pom.xml
+++ b/dspace-oai/pom.xml
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-            <version>2.3.3</version>
+            <version>2.12.7.1</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.xmlmatchers</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6dd03ce03..5d66392c7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-        <jackson.version>2.9.3</jackson.version>
+        <jackson.version>2.12.7.1</jackson.version>
         <java.version>1.7</java.version>
         <lucene.version>4.10.2</lucene.version>
         <solr.version>4.10.2</solr.version>