diff --git a/modules/securevault/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/securevault/tool/CipherTool.java b/modules/securevault/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/securevault/tool/CipherTool.java
index 9277546e0..79daa3a2d 100644
--- a/modules/securevault/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/securevault/tool/CipherTool.java
+++ b/modules/securevault/src/main/java/org/apache/synapse/securevault/tool/CipherTool.java
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         Options options = getOptions();
 
         // create the command line parser
-        CommandLineParser parser = new GnuParser();
+        CommandLineParser parser = new DefaultParser();
 
         // parse the command line arguments
         try {