diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 6328ac4c9b0..e4380f5e2bd 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
     <javax-servlet.version>4.0.1</javax-servlet.version>
     <javax-servlet-jsp.version>2.3.3</javax-servlet-jsp.version>
     <java-allocation-instrumenter.version>3.3.4</java-allocation-instrumenter.version>
-    <jazzer.version>0.24.0</jazzer.version>
+    <jazzer.version>0.26.0</jazzer.version>
     <jconsole.version>1.7.0</jconsole.version>
     <jctools.version>4.0.5</jctools.version>
     <jeromq.version>0.6.0</jeromq.version>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com_code_intelligence_jazzer.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com_code_intelligence_jazzer.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..30ba6c58927
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com_code_intelligence_jazzer.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="3973" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3973"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.code-intelligence:jazzer` to version `0.26.0`</description>
+</entry>