diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 27effb5ffe0f..5d998a97d263 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
     <commons-lang.version>2.4</commons-lang.version>
     <commons-lang3.version>3.1</commons-lang3.version>
     <commons-logging.version>1.1.3</commons-logging.version>
-    <derby.version>10.10.1.1</derby.version>
+    <derby.version>10.17.1.0</derby.version>
     <guava.version>11.0.2</guava.version>
     <groovy.version>2.1.6</groovy.version>
     <hadoop-20.version>0.20.2</hadoop-20.version>