diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a9d904a31..f7ba0dfeb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
       <dependency.hadoop.version>2.7.7</dependency.hadoop.version>
       <dependency.restlet.version>2.3.12</dependency.restlet.version>
       <dependency.jdom2.version>2.0.6.1</dependency.jdom2.version>
+      <dependency.spring.version>5.3.7</dependency.spring.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencyManagement>
       <dependencies>
@@ -118,6 +119,7 @@
             <artifactId>jdom2</artifactId>
             <version>${dependency.jdom2.version}</version>
          </dependency>
+         <!-- spring framework is defined in "search-services" and "insight-engine" because "e2e-test" uses different versions -->
       </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>
    <modules>
diff --git a/search-services/packaging/src/main/resources/licenses/notice.txt b/search-services/packaging/src/main/resources/licenses/notice.txt
index 636ba647e..2a0c7a9ba 100644
--- a/search-services/packaging/src/main/resources/licenses/notice.txt
+++ b/search-services/packaging/src/main/resources/licenses/notice.txt
@@ -60,14 +60,14 @@ jackson-core-2.12.2.jar https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson
 jackson-annotations-2.12.2.jar https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson
 jackson-databind-2.12.2.jar https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson
 commons-httpclient-3.1-HTTPCLIENT-1265.jar      http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/
-spring-aop-5.3.3.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
-spring-beans-5.3.3.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
-spring-context-5.3.3.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
-spring-core-5.3.3.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
-spring-expression-5.3.3.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
-spring-jdbc-5.3.3.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
-spring-orm-5.3.3.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
-spring-tx-5.3.3.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
+spring-aop-5.3.7.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
+spring-beans-5.3.7.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
+spring-context-5.3.7.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
+spring-core-5.3.7.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
+spring-expression-5.3.7.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
+spring-jdbc-5.3.7.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
+spring-orm-5.3.7.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
+spring-tx-5.3.7.jar http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/
 guessencoding-1.4.jar   http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GUESSENC/
 jug-2.0.0-asl.jar   http://jug.safehaus.org/
 acegi-security-0.8.2_patched.jar        http://sourceforge.net/projects/acegisecurity/
diff --git a/search-services/pom.xml b/search-services/pom.xml
index 13e27a6ae..8e73c50cb 100644
--- a/search-services/pom.xml
+++ b/search-services/pom.xml
@@ -71,4 +71,30 @@
             <url>http://maven.restlet.talend.com</url>
         </repository>
     </repositories>
+
+    <dependencyManagement>
+        <dependencies>
+            <!-- spring framework (E2E tests works with different versions) -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
+                <version>${dependency.spring.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
+                <version>${dependency.spring.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
+                <version>${dependency.spring.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
+                <version>${dependency.spring.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+        </dependencies>
+    </dependencyManagement>
 </project>