diff --git a/spark-3.1.2/pom.xml b/spark-3.1.2/pom.xml
index 436104a8..c34e4201 100644
--- a/spark-3.1.2/pom.xml
+++ b/spark-3.1.2/pom.xml
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
     <hive.version.short>2.3</hive.version.short>
     <!-- note that this should be compatible with Kafka brokers version 0.10 and up -->
     <kafka.version>2.6.0</kafka.version>
-    <derby.version>10.12.1.1</derby.version>
+    <derby.version>10.17.1.0</derby.version>
     <parquet.version>1.10.1</parquet.version>
     <orc.version>1.5.12</orc.version>
     <jetty.version>9.4.40.v20210413</jetty.version>