diff --git a/egov-telemetry/egov-telemetry-kafka-streams/pom.xml b/egov-telemetry/egov-telemetry-kafka-streams/pom.xml
index 3ecd6f49c..dbce28276 100644
--- a/egov-telemetry/egov-telemetry-kafka-streams/pom.xml
+++ b/egov-telemetry/egov-telemetry-kafka-streams/pom.xml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
-      <version>1.6</version>
+      <version>1.20.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>