diff --git a/project/SparkBuild.scala b/project/SparkBuild.scala
index 8ddace13acbf328b765c04465bbbbeadf7df9de9..ae8a6afa7646f5345ce96b5e57512a54df13c519 100644
--- a/project/SparkBuild.scala
+++ b/project/SparkBuild.scala
@@ -318,7 +318,6 @@ object SparkBuild extends Build {
   val excludeFastutil = ExclusionRule(organization = "it.unimi.dsi")
   val excludeJruby = ExclusionRule(organization = "org.jruby")
   val excludeThrift = ExclusionRule(organization = "org.apache.thrift")
-  val excludeCommonsLang = ExclusionRule(organization = "commons-lang")
   val excludeServletApi = ExclusionRule(organization = "javax.servlet", artifact = "servlet-api")
 
   def sparkPreviousArtifact(id: String, organization: String = "org.apache.spark",
@@ -493,7 +492,7 @@ object SparkBuild extends Build {
     javaOptions += "-XX:MaxPermSize=1g",
     libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
       "org.spark-project.hive" % "hive-metastore" % hiveVersion,
-      "org.spark-project.hive" % "hive-exec"      % hiveVersion excludeAll(excludeCommonsLang, excludeCommonsLogging),
+      "org.spark-project.hive" % "hive-exec"      % hiveVersion excludeAll(excludeCommonsLogging),
       "org.spark-project.hive" % "hive-serde"     % hiveVersion
     ),
     // Multiple queries rely on the TestHive singleton.  See comments there for more details.
diff --git a/sql/hive/pom.xml b/sql/hive/pom.xml
index c27a3c7af2bcc04220279cd5df070da0d106f140..0c5565707e00ca5ec9a5b7cd4c7faad870b94852 100644
--- a/sql/hive/pom.xml
+++ b/sql/hive/pom.xml
@@ -56,10 +56,6 @@
           <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
           <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
-          <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
@@ -79,10 +75,6 @@
           <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
           <artifactId>commons-logging-api</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
-          <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <!-- hive-serde already depends on avro, but this brings in customized config of avro deps from parent -->