diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bda83e1ad..5ccb440bb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     <!-- ALPN library targeted to Java 7 -->
     <alpn.jdk7.version>7.1.2.v20141202</alpn.jdk7.version>
     <android.version>4.1.1.4</android.version>
-    <animal.sniffer.version>1.11</animal.sniffer.version>
+    <animal.sniffer.version>1.15</animal.sniffer.version>
     <apache.http.version>4.2.2</apache.http.version>
     <bouncycastle.version>1.50</bouncycastle.version>
     <guava.version>16.0</guava.version>