diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3490fbd0ee7a..4accf4683f27 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                 <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
-                <version>1.1.1</version>
+                <version>99.0-does-not-exist</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>