diff --git a/pulsar-persist/pom.xml b/pulsar-persist/pom.xml
index 039300eec6..59da8fff7c 100644
--- a/pulsar-persist/pom.xml
+++ b/pulsar-persist/pom.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
             <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
-            <version>1.8.1</version>
+            <version>1.11.3</version>
             <exclusions>
                 <!-- tika-parsers-1.25 requires commons-compress-1.20 -->
                 <exclusion>