diff --git a/obp-api/pom.xml b/obp-api/pom.xml
index 211c527f2..4b8194138 100644
--- a/obp-api/pom.xml
+++ b/obp-api/pom.xml
@@ -79,16 +79,6 @@
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <version>1.7.26</version>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-      <version>${log4j.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-      <version>${log4j.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
       <artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2b8287314..b8f7e7923 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
     <avro.version>1.8.2</avro.version>
     <lift.version>3.5.0</lift.version>
     <jetty.version>9.4.50.v20221201</jetty.version>
-    <log4j.version>2.17.1</log4j.version>
     <obp-ri.version>2016.11-RC6-SNAPSHOT</obp-ri.version>
     <!-- Common plugin settings -->
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>