diff --git a/core-services/egov-telemetry/egov-telemetry-kafka-streams/pom.xml b/core-services/egov-telemetry/egov-telemetry-kafka-streams/pom.xml
index 97a093632ee..e25066409a7 100644
--- a/core-services/egov-telemetry/egov-telemetry-kafka-streams/pom.xml
+++ b/core-services/egov-telemetry/egov-telemetry-kafka-streams/pom.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.json</groupId>
       <artifactId>json</artifactId>
-      <version>20180813</version>
+      <version>20230227</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-io</groupId>