diff --git a/dspace-xmlui/pom.xml b/dspace-xmlui/pom.xml
index 74050c7aed..c9c0ce0b1f 100644
--- a/dspace-xmlui/pom.xml
+++ b/dspace-xmlui/pom.xml
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
             <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
-            <version>2.2.1</version>
+            <version>2.8.9</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8087e19e0e..fdb78f220f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
             <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
-            <version>2.2.1</version>
+            <version>2.8.9</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
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