diff --git a/sharelib/hive2/pom.xml b/sharelib/hive2/pom.xml
index 19eed69f3..b0bbcc572 100644
--- a/sharelib/hive2/pom.xml
+++ b/sharelib/hive2/pom.xml
@@ -159,7 +159,13 @@ e
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.hive</groupId>
             <artifactId>hive-beeline</artifactId>
-            <scope>compile</scope>
+	    <scope>compile</scope>
+	     <exclusions>
+               <exclusion>
+                   <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+                   <artifactId>log4j-1.2-api</artifactId>
+               </exclusion>
+           </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>