diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 5fb83a087c..54a6b0b85d 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -498,6 +498,7 @@ configurations {
             force "com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations:2.33.0"
             force "org.checkerframework:checker-qual:3.47.0"
             force "ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:1.5.8"
+            force "commons-io:commons-io:2.17.0"
         }
     }
 
@@ -701,7 +702,6 @@ dependencies {
     testRuntimeOnly('org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper:3.9.2') {
         exclude(group:'ch.qos.logback', module: 'logback-classic' )
         exclude(group:'ch.qos.logback', module: 'logback-core' )
-        exclude(group:'commons.io', module: 'commons:io')
     }
     testRuntimeOnly 'com.yammer.metrics:metrics-core:2.2.0'
     testRuntimeOnly "org.apache.kafka:kafka-metadata:${kafka_version}"