diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c8d00dedb2..b3d1d19ffd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
         <version.junit.vintage>4.13.2</version.junit.vintage>
         <version.okhttp>4.12.0</version.okhttp>
         <!-- this is the last version of slf4j that is compatible with Java 7-->
-        <version.slf4j>1.7.36</version.slf4j>
+        <version.slf4j>2.0.20</version.slf4j>
         <!-- this is the last version of log4j that is compatible with Java 7. Due to a known vulnerability
         (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9488#vulnCurrentDescriptionTitle), the SMTP appender is
          excluded from the build and not packaged into the agent artifacts -->