diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c3779a9..9dbb5c8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-		<slf4j-version>2.0.13</slf4j-version>
+		<slf4j-version>2.0.17</slf4j-version>
 	</properties>
 
 	<description>Connect-O-Matic is a executable .jar for validating TCP connections from localhost to a set of hosts and range of ports.