diff --git a/kafka-manager-web/pom.xml b/kafka-manager-web/pom.xml
index a959f958..91b09fc5 100644
--- a/kafka-manager-web/pom.xml
+++ b/kafka-manager-web/pom.xml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
         <spring-version>5.1.3.RELEASE</spring-version>
         <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
         <tomcat.version>8.5.72</tomcat.version>
+        <log4j2.version>2.16.0</log4j2.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3aecddc6..26a31cb7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <file_encoding>UTF-8</file_encoding>
         <tomcat.version>8.5.72</tomcat.version>
+        <log4j2.version>2.16.0</log4j2.version>
         <maven-assembly-plugin.version>3.0.0</maven-assembly-plugin.version>
-
     </properties>
 
     <modules>