diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 935efec53b64..590d8c41edbe 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
         <guice.version>4.0</guice.version>
         <mongo-java-driver.version>3.3.0</mongo-java-driver.version>
         <slf4j.version>1.7.21</slf4j.version>
-        <logback.version>1.1.7</logback.version>
+        <logback.version>1.2.0</logback.version>
         <aws-lambda-core.version>1.1.0</aws-lambda-core.version>
         <aws-java-sdk-dynamodb.version>1.11.289</aws-java-sdk-dynamodb.version>
         <aws-lambda-log4j.version>1.0.0</aws-lambda-log4j.version>