diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 3b8f511be08..86c7878c935 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
     <commons-codec.version>1.17.1</commons-codec.version>
     <commons-compress.version>1.27.1</commons-compress.version>
     <commons-csv.version>1.12.0</commons-csv.version>
-    <commons-dbcp2.version>2.12.0</commons-dbcp2.version>
+    <commons-dbcp2.version>2.13.0</commons-dbcp2.version>
     <commons-io.version>2.18.0</commons-io.version>
     <commons-lang3.version>3.17.0</commons-lang3.version>
     <commons-logging.version>1.3.4</commons-logging.version>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_commons_commons_dbcp2.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_commons_commons_dbcp2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f232afdf227
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_commons_commons_dbcp2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="3271" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3271"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.commons:commons-dbcp2` to version `2.13.0`</description>
+</entry>