diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index abad2df6e..6c5b76083 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Inspired from [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 - Bumps `io.netty:netty-all` from 4.1.109.Final to 4.1.111.Final
 - Bumps `jakarta.servlet:jakarta.servlet-api` from 6.0.0 to 6.1.0
 - Bumps `commons-codec:commons-codec` from 1.17.0 to 1.17.1
+- Bumps `org.apache.avro:avro` from 1.8.2 to 1.12.0
 
 ## [1.2.0]
 ### Changed
diff --git a/spark/sql-20/build.gradle b/spark/sql-20/build.gradle
index 0e21d8a02..f168a9d63 100644
--- a/spark/sql-20/build.gradle
+++ b/spark/sql-20/build.gradle
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ sparkVariants {
 
             if ('2.10' == scalaMajorVersion) {
                 add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "org.apache.spark:spark-unsafe_${variant.scalaMajorVersion}:$variant.sparkVersion")
-                add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "org.apache.avro:avro:1.8.2")
+                add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "org.apache.avro:avro:1.12.0")
                 add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "log4j:log4j:1.2.17")
                 add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:3.0.2")
                 add(variant.configuration('implementation'), "org.json4s:json4s-ast_2.10:3.6.12")