diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 95c731b..50d0892 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.5.1</version>
+        <version>3.5.2</version>
         <configuration>
           <!-- the following is required to have the same execution semantics as eclipse (hence all tests passing) -->
           <!-- the reason is that it switches Spoon in noclasspath or not for this particular file -->