diff --git a/.classpath b/.classpath
index 5d7cf069a..254f260cf 100644
--- a/.classpath
+++ b/.classpath
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.18.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/slf4j-jdk14-1.7.18.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/log4j-over-slf4j-1.7.18.jar"/>
-	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/httpcore-4.4.4.jar"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/httpcore-4.4.5.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/metadata-extractor-2.9.1.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/xmpcore-5.1.2.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/jcifs-1.3.17.jar"/>
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 89890ac5d..6b8990867 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
         <pathelement location="${lib}/guava-18.0.jar" />
         <pathelement location="${lib}/htmllexer.jar" />
         <pathelement location="${lib}/httpclient-4.5.2.jar" />
-        <pathelement location="${lib}/httpcore-4.4.4.jar" />
+        <pathelement location="${lib}/httpcore-4.4.5.jar" />
         <pathelement location="${lib}/httpmime-4.5.2.jar" />
         <pathelement location="${lib}/icu4j-57_1.jar" />
     	<pathelement location="${lib}/imageio-bmp-3.2.1.jar" />
diff --git a/lib/httpcore-4.4.4.jar b/lib/httpcore-4.4.4.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index ac4a87730..000000000
Binary files a/lib/httpcore-4.4.4.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/lib/httpcore-4.4.4.License b/lib/httpcore-4.4.5.License
similarity index 100%
rename from lib/httpcore-4.4.4.License
rename to lib/httpcore-4.4.5.License
diff --git a/lib/httpcore-4.4.5.jar b/lib/httpcore-4.4.5.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6bbf0ac8b
Binary files /dev/null and b/lib/httpcore-4.4.5.jar differ
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b5f5fa8d8..7fdd1482e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -368,7 +368,8 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
             <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
-            <version>4.4.4</version>
+            <version>4.4.5</version>
+            <type>jar</type>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>