diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 27eb98a..a93065b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.inject</groupId>
             <artifactId>jersey-hk2</artifactId>
-            <version>2.37</version>
+            <version>2.40</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- Command line option parsing -->