diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index c9853528b4e88e22087745ea4d583fd210f5c687..4b8fb4e5fb0f9063854f54feaa80a15b40d0538c 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -275,12 +275,11 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
       <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
-          <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
+      <artifactId>selenium-htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <!-- Added for selenium: -->
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2
index 2477312d74bf078ed1525b1193f4bf06ba4843cc..c3be6b2fee99e901a08db901f5cdb167a8f1a228 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ hadoop-yarn-server-web-proxy-2.2.0.jar
 hk2-api-2.4.0-b34.jar
 hk2-locator-2.4.0-b34.jar
 hk2-utils-2.4.0-b34.jar
-httpclient-4.3.2.jar
-httpcore-4.3.2.jar
+httpclient-4.5.2.jar
+httpcore-4.4.4.jar
 ivy-2.4.0.jar
 jackson-annotations-2.5.3.jar
 jackson-core-2.5.3.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3
index 0181a47a79d3c7a701ca2fb0b7f298a26af40999..61ed4c0889b8e8d602331260cd0b0cf0b9dea2b3 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ hadoop-yarn-server-web-proxy-2.3.0.jar
 hk2-api-2.4.0-b34.jar
 hk2-locator-2.4.0-b34.jar
 hk2-utils-2.4.0-b34.jar
-httpclient-4.3.2.jar
-httpcore-4.3.2.jar
+httpclient-4.5.2.jar
+httpcore-4.4.4.jar
 ivy-2.4.0.jar
 jackson-annotations-2.5.3.jar
 jackson-core-2.5.3.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4
index f7ff23472b9b5e0f5d9a9cbca16188b20084d317..fb014921765f9eefac17172c1befd94b896c4d58 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ hadoop-yarn-server-web-proxy-2.4.0.jar
 hk2-api-2.4.0-b34.jar
 hk2-locator-2.4.0-b34.jar
 hk2-utils-2.4.0-b34.jar
-httpclient-4.3.2.jar
-httpcore-4.3.2.jar
+httpclient-4.5.2.jar
+httpcore-4.4.4.jar
 ivy-2.4.0.jar
 jackson-annotations-2.5.3.jar
 jackson-core-2.5.3.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6
index 92db55d674a4daceca6f8edc1947a47e88ee86bb..0baf4e84fff0a587aa9e746ea95c5d96c2d412b0 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ hk2-api-2.4.0-b34.jar
 hk2-locator-2.4.0-b34.jar
 hk2-utils-2.4.0-b34.jar
 htrace-core-3.0.4.jar
-httpclient-4.3.2.jar
-httpcore-4.3.2.jar
+httpclient-4.5.2.jar
+httpcore-4.4.4.jar
 ivy-2.4.0.jar
 jackson-annotations-2.5.3.jar
 jackson-core-2.5.3.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7
index 44b9b049344ad757179a393a9f54428c7c15f250..8be218cd68d91b4a7f1938edd37c8156d7cc892d 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ hk2-api-2.4.0-b34.jar
 hk2-locator-2.4.0-b34.jar
 hk2-utils-2.4.0-b34.jar
 htrace-core-3.1.0-incubating.jar
-httpclient-4.3.2.jar
-httpcore-4.3.2.jar
+httpclient-4.5.2.jar
+httpcore-4.4.4.jar
 ivy-2.4.0.jar
 jackson-annotations-2.5.3.jar
 jackson-core-2.5.3.jar
diff --git a/external/docker-integration-tests/pom.xml b/external/docker-integration-tests/pom.xml
index 53a24f3e06e086f20e25e29dddd59064f68c00c4..3169a0ebaeb9f94346e07e1df87df3cff36766ce 100644
--- a/external/docker-integration-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/external/docker-integration-tests/pom.xml
@@ -85,13 +85,11 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
       <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-      <version>4.5</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
       <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
-      <version>4.4.1</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <!-- Necessary in order to avoid errors in log messages: -->
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9e9aad223a5e16dc41297dedbfab6de5eaeed232..40d9bf5ccccb5b8ca0ccef2fff70d7901066a550 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@
     <!-- the producer is used in tests -->
     <aws.kinesis.producer.version>0.10.2</aws.kinesis.producer.version>
     <!--  org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient-->
-    <commons.httpclient.version>4.3.2</commons.httpclient.version>
-    <commons.httpcore.version>4.3.2</commons.httpcore.version>
+    <commons.httpclient.version>4.5.2</commons.httpclient.version>
+    <commons.httpcore.version>4.4.4</commons.httpcore.version>
     <!--  commons-httpclient/commons-httpclient-->
     <httpclient.classic.version>3.1</httpclient.classic.version>
     <commons.math3.version>3.4.1</commons.math3.version>
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@
     <libthrift.version>0.9.2</libthrift.version>
     <antlr4.version>4.5.2-1</antlr4.version>
     <jpam.version>1.1</jpam.version>
+    <selenium.version>2.52.0</selenium.version>
 
     <test.java.home>${java.home}</test.java.home>
     <test.exclude.tags></test.exclude.tags>
@@ -410,6 +411,11 @@
         <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
         <version>${commons.httpclient.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+        <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
+        <version>${commons.httpclient.version}</version>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
         <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
@@ -418,7 +424,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
         <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
-        <version>2.45.0</version> <!-- 2.46.0+ requires Jetty 9 -->
+        <version>${selenium.version}</version>
         <scope>test</scope>
         <exclusions>
           <exclusion>
@@ -431,6 +437,12 @@
           </exclusion>
         </exclusions>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
+        <artifactId>selenium-htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
+        <version>${selenium.version}</version>
+        <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
       <!-- Added for selenium only, and should match its dependent version: -->
       <dependency>
         <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
@@ -731,18 +743,6 @@
             <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
             <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
           </exclusion>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-            <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
-            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
           <exclusion>
             <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
@@ -1448,14 +1448,6 @@
             <groupId>${hive.group}</groupId>
             <artifactId>hive-shims</artifactId>
           </exclusion>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-            <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
           <exclusion>
             <groupId>org.apache.curator</groupId>
             <artifactId>curator-framework</artifactId>
@@ -1807,14 +1799,6 @@
         <artifactId>libthrift</artifactId>
         <version>${libthrift.version}</version>
         <exclusions>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-            <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
           <exclusion>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
@@ -1826,14 +1810,6 @@
         <artifactId>libfb303</artifactId>
         <version>${libthrift.version}</version>
         <exclusions>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
-          <exclusion>
-            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-            <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
-          </exclusion>
           <exclusion>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
diff --git a/sql/hive-thriftserver/pom.xml b/sql/hive-thriftserver/pom.xml
index a8b7aaff62a150e133970a7c3d35fdfe82719e46..5cf16e42b9f864c4976e3acc96453e24eb383888 100644
--- a/sql/hive-thriftserver/pom.xml
+++ b/sql/hive-thriftserver/pom.xml
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@
       <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
+      <artifactId>selenium-htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-sql_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
@@ -106,12 +111,6 @@
               </sources>
             </configuration>
           </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-        <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>add-source</id>
             <phase>generate-sources</phase>
diff --git a/streaming/pom.xml b/streaming/pom.xml
index e7415863e3568cb7223d338d386dc75269973b50..2055cffe751cff3630090547c1c574ddfc36f248 100644
--- a/streaming/pom.xml
+++ b/streaming/pom.xml
@@ -97,6 +97,11 @@
       <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
+      <artifactId>selenium-htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
       <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>