diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c663937eba..5e38e35a4f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
         <owasp-java-html-sanitizer.version>r239</owasp-java-html-sanitizer.version>
         <paranamer.version>2.3</paranamer.version>
         <presto.version>333</presto.version>
-        <poi.version>5.0.0</poi.version>
+        <poi.version>5.1.0</poi.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <protobuf-java.version>2.5.0</protobuf-java.version>
         <gcp.protobuf-java.version>3.19.1</gcp.protobuf-java.version>
diff --git a/security-admin/pom.xml b/security-admin/pom.xml
index bcce60661d..727d595929 100644
--- a/security-admin/pom.xml
+++ b/security-admin/pom.xml
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@
          <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
             <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
             <version>${poi.version}</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
@@ -90,6 +96,10 @@
                     <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
                     <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
              </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>