diff --git a/vertx-template-engines/vertx-web-templ-pug/pom.xml b/vertx-template-engines/vertx-web-templ-pug/pom.xml
index 24244bf65f..e7d9957eb4 100644
--- a/vertx-template-engines/vertx-web-templ-pug/pom.xml
+++ b/vertx-template-engines/vertx-web-templ-pug/pom.xml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-      <version>3.7</version>
+      <version>3.19.0</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <!-- For dependency convergence with Kotlin -->