diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
index f68358af400a..6c0a25d08656 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         jackson_annotations                         : "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:$jackson_version",
         jackson_jaxb_annotations                    : "com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-jaxb-annotations:$jackson_version",
         jackson_core                                : "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:$jackson_version",
-        jackson_databind                            : "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:$jackson_version",
+        jackson_databind                            : "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.9.9.3",
         jackson_dataformat_cbor                     : "com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor:$jackson_version",
         jackson_dataformat_yaml                     : "com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-yaml:$jackson_version",
         jackson_datatype_joda                       : "com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-joda:$jackson_version",