diff --git a/tensorflow/java/maven/spark-tensorflow-connector/pom.xml b/tensorflow/java/maven/spark-tensorflow-connector/pom.xml
index 19f5e29da2bf38..c7076e9f409efe 100644
--- a/tensorflow/java/maven/spark-tensorflow-connector/pom.xml
+++ b/tensorflow/java/maven/spark-tensorflow-connector/pom.xml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
                 <!-- Shade protobuf dependency. -->
                 <plugin>
                     <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
-                    <version>3.1.0</version>
+                    <version>3.2.4</version>
                     <executions>
                         <execution>
                             <phase>package</phase>