diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index dc0f01cc393e..0a1b8377fb95 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
     <shade.prefix>org.apache.pinot.shaded</shade.prefix>
     <shade.phase.prop>none</shade.phase.prop>
 
-    <avro.version>1.11.4</avro.version>
+    <avro.version>1.12.0</avro.version>
     <parquet.version>1.15.0</parquet.version>
     <orc.version>1.9.5</orc.version>
     <hive.version>2.8.1</hive.version>