diff --git a/hbase-diagnostics/pom.xml b/hbase-diagnostics/pom.xml
index 78e47ac38ab1..6992233b16d5 100644
--- a/hbase-diagnostics/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-diagnostics/pom.xml
@@ -196,6 +196,11 @@
       <artifactId>jul-to-slf4j</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j-1.2-api</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0fdbd2145a5a..226409433705 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1513,6 +1513,12 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
         <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
         <version>${httpclient.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
@@ -1528,6 +1534,12 @@
         <groupId>commons-validator</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-validator</artifactId>
         <version>${commons-validator.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
@@ -4290,6 +4302,10 @@
                 <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                 <artifactId>slf4j-reload4j</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
               <exclusion>
                 <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
                 <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
@@ -4351,6 +4367,10 @@
                 <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
                 <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
               </exclusion>
+              <exclusion>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+              </exclusion>
               <exclusion>
                 <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
                 <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>