diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 17bd1a96..790eab67 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         <tag>fabric-sdk-java-1.0</tag>
     </scm>
     <properties>
-        <grpc.version>1.20.0</grpc.version><!-- CURRENT_GRPC_VERSION -->
+        <grpc.version>1.53.0</grpc.version><!-- CURRENT_GRPC_VERSION -->
         <protobuf.version>3.7.1</protobuf.version>
         <bouncycastle.version>1.61</bouncycastle.version>
         <httpclient.version>4.5.8</httpclient.version>