diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index d4d968b4689c..a270028f4d00 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ project("spring-core") {
 	// avoids including two different copies of asm unnecessarily. If however future cglib
 	// versions drift from the version of asm used by Spring internally, this duplication
 	// will become necessary.
-	def asmVersion = "4.0"
-	def cglibVersion = "3.0"
+	def asmVersion = "5.0.1"
+	def cglibVersion = "3.1"
 
 	configurations {
 		jarjar
diff --git a/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/asm/SpringAsmInfo.java b/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/asm/SpringAsmInfo.java
index a2c3a1074ac0..74fec49fe7fd 100644
--- a/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/asm/SpringAsmInfo.java
+++ b/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/asm/SpringAsmInfo.java
@@ -33,6 +33,6 @@ public final class SpringAsmInfo {
 	 *
 	 * @see Opcodes#ASM4
 	 */
-	public static final int ASM_VERSION = Opcodes.ASM4;
+	public static final int ASM_VERSION = Opcodes.ASM5;
 
 }