diff --git a/appengine/requests/pom.xml b/appengine/requests/pom.xml
index 386cd20fe61..8a48a4ee73c 100644
--- a/appengine/requests/pom.xml
+++ b/appengine/requests/pom.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Copyright 2016 Google Inc.
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.json</groupId>
       <artifactId>json</artifactId>
-      <version>20160810</version>
+      <version>20230227</version>
     </dependency>
     <!-- Test Dependencies -->
     <dependency>