diff --git a/hadoop-client-modules/hadoop-client-minicluster/pom.xml b/hadoop-client-modules/hadoop-client-minicluster/pom.xml
index 471bc2b0b59cb..473ada7c79282 100644
--- a/hadoop-client-modules/hadoop-client-minicluster/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-client-modules/hadoop-client-minicluster/pom.xml
@@ -314,6 +314,10 @@
           <groupId>commons-net</groupId>
           <artifactId>commons-net</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
+          <artifactId>spotbugs-annotations</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <!-- Add optional runtime dependency on the in-development timeline server module