diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
index 919ea080da34..c5da44f62446 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
     def guava_version = "20.0"
     def hadoop_version = "2.7.3"
     def hamcrest_version = "2.1"
-    def jackson_version = "2.9.9"
+    def jackson_version = "2.9.10"
     def jaxb_api_version = "2.2.12"
     def kafka_version = "1.0.0"
     def nemo_version = "0.1"
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         jackson_annotations                         : "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:$jackson_version",
         jackson_jaxb_annotations                    : "com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-jaxb-annotations:$jackson_version",
         jackson_core                                : "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:$jackson_version",
-        jackson_databind                            : "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.9.9.3",
+        jackson_databind                            : "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:$jackson_version",
         jackson_dataformat_cbor                     : "com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor:$jackson_version",
         jackson_dataformat_yaml                     : "com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-yaml:$jackson_version",
         jackson_datatype_joda                       : "com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-joda:$jackson_version",