diff --git a/samples/client/petstore/java/apache-httpclient-jackson3/pom.xml b/samples/client/petstore/java/apache-httpclient-jackson3/pom.xml
index 7a7eaccd9d5e..b1abe03dd924 100644
--- a/samples/client/petstore/java/apache-httpclient-jackson3/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/client/petstore/java/apache-httpclient-jackson3/pom.xml
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@
     </dependencies>
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <httpclient-version>5.2.1</httpclient-version>
+        <httpclient-version>5.6.3</httpclient-version>
         <jackson3-version>3.1.5</jackson3-version>
         <jackson-annotations-version>2.21</jackson-annotations-version>
         <jackson-databind-nullable-version>0.2.11</jackson-databind-nullable-version>