diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e89b5c9dae..da087bdc9f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
         <!--=== SERVER WEBAPP DEPENDENCIES ===-->
         <!-- Library for reading JSON documents: https://github.com/json-path/JsonPath (used by Server webapp) -->
-        <json-path.version>2.6.0</json-path.version>
+        <json-path.version>2.8.0</json-path.version>
         <!-- Library for managing JSON Web Tokens (JWT): https://bitbucket.org/connect2id/nimbus-jose-jwt/wiki/Home
              (used by Server webapp) -->
         <nimbus-jose-jwt.version>7.9</nimbus-jose-jwt.version>