diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 008cf4e24a1..6faa56a01a7 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     <exam-maven-plugin.version>4.13.5</exam-maven-plugin.version>
     <maven-taglib-plugin.version>2.4</maven-taglib-plugin.version>
     <!-- `surefire.version` property used in `apache.org:apache`: -->
-    <surefire.version>3.1.2</surefire.version>
+    <surefire.version>3.2.2</surefire.version>
 
     <!-- =====================================================
          Direct dependency version properties (in alphabetical order)
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_maven_surefire_surefire_junit47.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_maven_surefire_surefire_junit47.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..35faa666ad4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_maven_surefire_surefire_junit47.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.2.xsd"
+       type="changed">
+  <issue id="2059" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2059"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.maven.surefire:surefire-junit47` to version `3.2.2`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc b/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc
index 0c7d1ded93b..a56bd3af915 100644
--- a/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc
+++ b/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ This releases contains ...
 * Update `org.apache.commons:commons-lang3` to version `3.14.0` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2047[2047])
 * Update `org.apache.commons:commons-pool2` to version `2.12.0` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2057[2057])
 * Update `org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients` to version `3.6.0` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2060[2060])
+* Update `org.apache.maven.surefire:surefire-junit47` to version `3.2.2` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2059[2059])
 * Update `org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils` to version `3.5.1` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2056[2056])
 * Update `org.jctools:jctools-core` to version `4.0.2` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1984[1984])
 * Update `org.springframework.boot:spring-boot` to version `2.7.18` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1998[1998])