diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 80cc399..5e04f0e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   <java.version>1.8</java.version>
   <scala.version>2.12</scala.version>
   <spark.version>3.0.0</spark.version>
-  <mysql.version>8.0.16</mysql.version>
+  <mysql.version>8.0.28</mysql.version>
   <informix-jdbc.version>4.10.8.1</informix-jdbc.version>
   <!-- This will not work, look at pom-elastic-scale2.11.xml for now -->
   <elasticsearch-hadoop.version>7.8.0</elasticsearch-hadoop.version>