diff --git a/shell/pom.xml b/shell/pom.xml
index 29c5639fe4f..dbc048be5ea 100644
--- a/shell/pom.xml
+++ b/shell/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     <pty4j.version>0.9.3</pty4j.version>
     <jinjava.version>2.4.0</jinjava.version>
     <guava.version>24.1.1-jre</guava.version>
-    <gson.version>2.2</gson.version>
+    <gson.version>2.8.9</gson.version>
   </properties>
 
   <!-- pty4j library not in maven central repository (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2) -->