diff --git a/dev-tools/maven/pom.xml.template b/dev-tools/maven/pom.xml.template
index 9cc2ec4..2d036e3 100644
--- a/dev-tools/maven/pom.xml.template
+++ b/dev-tools/maven/pom.xml.template
@@ -161,6 +161,12 @@
         <groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-digester</artifactId>
         <version>1.7</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
+            <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
@@ -181,6 +187,12 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
         <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
         <version>${httpcomponents.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
@@ -221,16 +233,28 @@
         <groupId>junit</groupId>
         <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
         <version>4.10</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hamcrest-core</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
         <artifactId>ant</artifactId>
         <version>1.8.2</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
+            <artifactId>ant-launcher</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-        <version>1.2</version>
+        <version>1.3</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>net.arnx</groupId>
@@ -251,6 +275,28 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
         <artifactId>tika-parsers</artifactId>
         <version>${tika.version}</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
+            <artifactId>geronimo-stax-api_1.0_spec</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.gagravarr</groupId>
+            <artifactId>vorbis-java-core</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>asm</groupId>
+            <artifactId>asm</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
+            <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.uima</groupId>
@@ -376,6 +422,12 @@
         <groupId>xerces</groupId>
         <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
         <version>2.9.1</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
+            <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.carrotsearch.randomizedtesting</groupId>
diff --git a/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/clustering/pom.xml.template b/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/clustering/pom.xml.template
index e7ad55f..2745b0d 100644
--- a/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/clustering/pom.xml.template
+++ b/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/clustering/pom.xml.template
@@ -86,6 +86,26 @@
           <groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>
           <artifactId>lucene-smartcn</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>net.java.dev.rome</groupId>
+          <artifactId>rome</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>net.java.dev.rome</groupId>
+          <artifactId>rome-fetcher</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.jdom</groupId>
+          <artifactId>jdom</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>net.sf.ehcache</groupId>
+          <artifactId>ehcache-core</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.carrot2</groupId>
+          <artifactId>morfologik-stemming</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
diff --git a/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/extraction/pom.xml.template b/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/extraction/pom.xml.template
index d144094..da816dc 100644
--- a/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/extraction/pom.xml.template
+++ b/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/extraction/pom.xml.template
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>xerces</groupId>
       <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-      <version>2.8.1</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <!-- SOLR-3263: Test scope dep is required to avoid jar signing conflicts -->
diff --git a/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/uima/pom.xml.template b/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/uima/pom.xml.template
index bc5eed5..59afb36 100644
--- a/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/uima/pom.xml.template
+++ b/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/uima/pom.xml.template
@@ -68,16 +68,18 @@
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-digester</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.uima</groupId>
       <artifactId>AlchemyAPIAnnotator</artifactId>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
+          <artifactId>commons-digester</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.uima</groupId>
diff --git a/dev-tools/maven/solr/core/pom.xml.template b/dev-tools/maven/solr/core/pom.xml.template
index f2bbf88..5f9de42 100644
--- a/dev-tools/maven/solr/core/pom.xml.template
+++ b/dev-tools/maven/solr/core/pom.xml.template
@@ -140,10 +140,6 @@
       <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-      <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
     </dependency>
diff --git a/dev-tools/maven/solr/solrj/pom.xml.template b/dev-tools/maven/solr/solrj/pom.xml.template
index 0fb1474..6441157 100644
--- a/dev-tools/maven/solr/solrj/pom.xml.template
+++ b/dev-tools/maven/solr/solrj/pom.xml.template
@@ -80,10 +80,6 @@
       <optional>true</optional>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-      <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
     </dependency>