diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1746bae..e6e6e89 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
         <build.jar.name>common-random</build.jar.name>
-        <commons-lang.version>3.12.0</commons-lang.version>
+        <commons-lang.version>3.18.0</commons-lang.version>
         <commons-io.version>2.14.0</commons-io.version>
         <commons-collections.version>4.4</commons-collections.version>
         <guava.version>33.2.1-jre</guava.version>