diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index ec97a7002ca..4e008f88aac 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
          ===================================================== -->
     <asm.version>9.6</asm.version>
     <byte-buddy.version>1.14.9</byte-buddy.version>
-    <commons-pool2.version>2.12.0</commons-pool2.version>
+    <commons-pool2.version>2.12.1</commons-pool2.version>
     <httpclient.version>4.5.14</httpclient.version>
     <httpcore.version>4.4.16</httpcore.version>
     <jna.version>5.16.0</jna.version>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_commons_commons_pool2.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_commons_commons_pool2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f4bf24b50fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_commons_commons_pool2.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="3422" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3422"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.commons:commons-pool2` to version `2.12.1`</description>
+</entry>