diff --git a/engines/misc/pom.xml b/engines/misc/pom.xml
index e06f9d84..2e8433b2 100644
--- a/engines/misc/pom.xml
+++ b/engines/misc/pom.xml
@@ -57,17 +57,6 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
             <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
             <version>${dependency.poi.version}</version>
-            <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>poi-ooxml-schemas</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
-            <artifactId>poi-ooxml-lite</artifactId>
-            <version>${dependency.poi-ooxml-lite.version}</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- EMLTransformer -->
diff --git a/engines/tika/pom.xml b/engines/tika/pom.xml
index 69285a9b..f3f663b0 100644
--- a/engines/tika/pom.xml
+++ b/engines/tika/pom.xml
@@ -62,14 +62,6 @@
             <artifactId>tika-parsers-standard-package</artifactId>
             <version>${dependency.tika.version}</version>
             <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>bcmail-jdk15on</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
                 <exclusion>
                     <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
                     <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
@@ -84,18 +76,6 @@
             <version>2.12.5</version>
         </dependency>
 
-        <!-- for Apache Tika Parsers - eg. encrypted PDF -->
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
-            <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15to18</artifactId>
-            <version>1.76</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
-            <artifactId>bcmail-jdk15on</artifactId>
-            <version>1.70</version>
-        </dependency>
-
         <!-- Apache POI -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
@@ -106,17 +86,6 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
             <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
             <version>${dependency.poi.version}</version>
-            <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>poi-ooxml-schemas</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
-            <artifactId>poi-ooxml-lite</artifactId>
-            <version>${dependency.poi-ooxml-lite.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 08caf077..61dafa3c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -20,13 +20,12 @@
 
         <image.tag>latest</image.tag>
         <image.registry>quay.io</image.registry>
-        <dependency.pdfbox.version>2.0.26</dependency.pdfbox.version>
+        <dependency.pdfbox.version>2.0.30</dependency.pdfbox.version>
         <dependency.alfresco-jodconverter-core.version>3.0.1.18</dependency.alfresco-jodconverter-core.version>
         <env.project_version>${project.version}</env.project_version>
         <dependency.jackson.version>2.15.2</dependency.jackson.version>
-        <dependency.tika.version>2.4.1</dependency.tika.version>
-        <dependency.poi.version>5.2.2</dependency.poi.version>
-        <dependency.poi-ooxml-lite.version>5.2.4</dependency.poi-ooxml-lite.version>
+        <dependency.tika.version>2.9.1</dependency.tika.version>
+        <dependency.poi.version>5.2.5</dependency.poi.version>
         <dependency.snakeyaml.version>2.2</dependency.snakeyaml.version>
 
         <parent.core.deploy.skip>false</parent.core.deploy.skip>
@@ -171,7 +170,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
                 <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-                <version>1.24.0</version>
+                <version>1.25.0</version>
             </dependency>
 
             <dependency>