diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index ca2af3ee7..3c5183b23 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
             <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
             <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
             <!-- Old version for velocity -->
-            <version>25.1-jre</version>
+            <version>31.1-jre</version>
             <!-- Exclude compile time dependencies not marked as such on upstream  -->
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>