diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 47709923e3..95a1ebdbb4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@
     <surefire.redirectTestOutputToFile>true</surefire.redirectTestOutputToFile>
     <source.property>1.8</source.property>
     <target.property>1.8</target.property>
-    <netty.version>4.1.42.Final</netty.version>
+    <netty.version>4.1.44.Final</netty.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.26</slf4j.version>
     <reactive-streams.version>1.0.2</reactive-streams.version>
     <activation.version>1.2.0</activation.version>