diff --git a/bom/application/pom.xml b/bom/application/pom.xml
index a0512ed3e6839..9c75731940b23 100644
--- a/bom/application/pom.xml
+++ b/bom/application/pom.xml
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
         <kafka2.version>2.5.0</kafka2.version>
         <zookeeper.version>3.5.7</zookeeper.version>
         <!-- Scala is used by Kafka so we need to choose a compatible version -->
-        <scala.version>2.12.9</scala.version>
+        <scala.version>2.13.4</scala.version>
         <tika.version>1.24.1</tika.version>
         <ooxml-schemas.version>1.4</ooxml-schemas.version>
         <aws-lambda-java.version>1.2.1</aws-lambda-java.version>