diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8f052836..235ae08c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
 
         <apache.http.client.version>5.2.1</apache.http.client.version>
         <apache.http.core.version>5.2.3</apache.http.core.version>
-        <apache.http.core.h2.version>5.2.4</apache.http.core.h2.version>
+        <apache.http.core.h2.version>5.3</apache.http.core.h2.version>
 
         <apache.tika.version>2.9.1</apache.tika.version>
         <!-- XXX replace with crawler commons -->