diff --git a/benchmarks/pom.xml b/benchmarks/pom.xml
index 28ce11d851..057f6a0c12 100644
--- a/benchmarks/pom.xml
+++ b/benchmarks/pom.xml
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
         <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>3.4.1</version>
+        <version>3.5.0</version>
         <configuration>
           <mainClass>com.google.cloud.spanner.benchmark.LatencyBenchmark</mainClass>
           <cleanupDaemonThreads>false</cleanupDaemonThreads>