diff --git a/parent/pom.xml b/parent/pom.xml
index 131c267c33..cde01dce60 100644
--- a/parent/pom.xml
+++ b/parent/pom.xml
@@ -1614,7 +1614,7 @@
         <groupId>xerces</groupId>
         <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
         <!-- This comes from jboss - the standard 2.11.0 requires xml-apis (which we exclude) -->
-        <version>2.11.0.SP5</version>
+        <version>2.12.0</version>
       </dependency>
 
       <dependency>