diff --git a/components/workflow-core/pom.xml b/components/workflow-core/pom.xml
index 876d5c66f..3098d8577 100644
--- a/components/workflow-core/pom.xml
+++ b/components/workflow-core/pom.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>junit</groupId>
 			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-			<version>3.8.1</version>
+			<version>4.13.1</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
diff --git a/components/workflow/workflow-service/pom.xml b/components/workflow/workflow-service/pom.xml
index e66235a1d..7caf9f255 100644
--- a/components/workflow/workflow-service/pom.xml
+++ b/components/workflow/workflow-service/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>junit</groupId>
 			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-			<version>3.8.1</version>
+			<version>4.13.1</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4603476f9..b2bca55f8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 		<com.google.code.gson.version>2.3.1</com.google.code.gson.version>
 		<org.glassfish.jersey.core.version>2.17</org.glassfish.jersey.core.version>
 		<org.json.wso2.version>3.0.0.wso2v1</org.json.wso2.version>
-		<junit.version>3.8.1</junit.version>
+		<junit.version>4.13.1</junit.version>
 		<org.apache.synapse.core.version>2.1.7-wso2v3</org.apache.synapse.core.version>
 		<org.wso2.carbon.commons.version>4.4.8</org.wso2.carbon.commons.version>
 		<org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.version>6.0.4</org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.version>