diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6a987b1a3e..d05c9d44ca 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.1.2</version>
+        <version>3.2.1</version>
         <configuration>
           <!-- smaller stack to find stack overflows -->
           <argLine>-Xss256k</argLine>