diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer2.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer2.java
index 0891e8edea..d7436b2282 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer2.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer2.java
@@ -431,6 +431,7 @@ public HttpServer2 build() throws IOException {
       HttpConfiguration httpConfig = new HttpConfiguration();
       httpConfig.setRequestHeaderSize(requestHeaderSize);
       httpConfig.setResponseHeaderSize(responseHeaderSize);
+      httpConfig.setSendServerVersion(false);
 
       for (URI ep : endpoints) {
         final ServerConnector connector;