diff --git a/src/backend/efiling-api/pom.xml b/src/backend/efiling-api/pom.xml
index 37cb5b179a..8ffff8808f 100644
--- a/src/backend/efiling-api/pom.xml
+++ b/src/backend/efiling-api/pom.xml
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
             <artifactId>tika-core</artifactId>
+             <version>1.18</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>