diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b5af54e2d39d..b04553e8c657 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1211,6 +1211,12 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
         <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
         <version>${httpclient.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
@@ -1242,14 +1248,6 @@
         <artifactId>commons-cli</artifactId>
         <version>${commons-cli.version}</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <!-- commons-logging is only used by hbase-http's HttpRequestLog and hbase-server's
-             HBaseTestingUtil.
-          -->
-        <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
-        <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
-        <version>1.2</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
         <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
@@ -2158,8 +2156,7 @@
                   <excludes>
                     <exclude>commons-logging:commons-logging</exclude>
                   </excludes>
-                  <message>We don't use commons-logging any more, so do not depend on it directly.</message>
-                  <searchTransitive>false</searchTransitive>
+                  <message>We don't use commons-logging any more, so do not depend on it directly. We are also using jcl-over-slf4j for libraries so exclude any transitive commons-logging dependencies.</message>
                 </bannedDependencies>
               </rules>
             </configuration>
@@ -3416,6 +3413,10 @@
                 <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                 <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
@@ -3467,6 +3468,10 @@
                 <groupId>com.codahale.metrics</groupId>
                 <artifactId>metrics-core</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
@@ -3504,6 +3509,10 @@
                 <groupId>com.codahale.metrics</groupId>
                 <artifactId>metrics-core</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
@@ -3560,6 +3569,10 @@
                 <groupId>com.codahale.metrics</groupId>
                 <artifactId>metrics-core</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
@@ -3615,6 +3628,10 @@
                 <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                 <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
@@ -3672,6 +3689,10 @@
                 <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                 <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
@@ -3770,6 +3791,10 @@
                 <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                 <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
@@ -3835,6 +3860,10 @@
                 <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                 <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
@@ -3868,6 +3897,10 @@
                 <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                 <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <!-- This was marked as test dep in earlier pom, but was scoped compile.
@@ -3929,6 +3962,10 @@
                 <groupId>com.codahale.metrics</groupId>
                 <artifactId>metrics-core</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
@@ -4261,6 +4298,10 @@
                 <groupId>org.openlabtesting.leveldbjni</groupId>
                 <artifactId>leveldbjni-all</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
@@ -4314,6 +4355,10 @@
                 <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                 <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
@@ -4416,6 +4461,10 @@
                 <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                 <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
               <exclusion>
                 <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
                 <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
@@ -4510,6 +4559,10 @@
                 <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
                 <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
               <exclusion>
                 <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
                 <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
@@ -4589,6 +4642,10 @@
                 <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
                 <artifactId>bcpkix-jdk15on</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>