diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
index 3f1c87bb3d..fb8f2f5779 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.json</groupId>
       <artifactId>json</artifactId>
-      <version>20210307</version>
+      <version>20211205</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>