diff --git a/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml b/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml
index 01fcf2d366..b3834a54f0 100644
--- a/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 		<reactor.version>1.1.5.RELEASE</reactor.version>
 		<reactor-spring.version>1.1.3.RELEASE</reactor-spring.version>
 		<servlet-api.version>3.0.1</servlet-api.version>
-		<slf4j.version>1.7.7</slf4j.version>
+		<slf4j.version>1.7.8</slf4j.version>
 		<snakeyaml.version>1.13</snakeyaml.version>
 		<solr.version>4.7.2</solr.version>
 		<spock.version>0.7-groovy-2.0</spock.version>