diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index eee9fa385f3..4646a32c645 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ dependencies {
     // required for reading write-protected PDFs - see https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/942#issuecomment-209252635
     implementation 'org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on:1.76'
 
-    implementation 'commons-cli:commons-cli:1.5.0'
+    implementation 'commons-cli:commons-cli:1.6.0'
 
     implementation 'org.libreoffice:unoloader:7.6.1'
     implementation 'org.libreoffice:libreoffice:7.6.1'
diff --git a/src/main/java/module-info.java b/src/main/java/module-info.java
index fd08733b2ab..56ee2eca620 100644
--- a/src/main/java/module-info.java
+++ b/src/main/java/module-info.java
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
     uses org.mariadb.jdbc.credential.CredentialPlugin;
 
     // Apache Commons and other (similar) helper libraries
-    requires commons.cli;
+    requires org.apache.commons.cli;
     requires org.apache.commons.csv;
     requires org.apache.commons.lang3;
     requires com.google.common;