diff --git a/config/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/config/authentication/AuthenticationManagerBeanDefinitionParser.java b/config/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/config/authentication/AuthenticationManagerBeanDefinitionParser.java
index 620c424c0e..952052d1ce 100644
--- a/config/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/config/authentication/AuthenticationManagerBeanDefinitionParser.java
+++ b/config/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/config/authentication/AuthenticationManagerBeanDefinitionParser.java
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import org.springframework.security.core.Authentication;
 import org.springframework.security.core.AuthenticationException;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
-import org.springframework.util.xml.DomUtils;
 import org.w3c.dom.Element;
 import org.w3c.dom.Node;
 import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;