diff --git a/mypy.ini b/mypy.ini
--- a/mypy.ini
+++ b/mypy.ini
@@ -40,8 +40,5 @@
 [mypy-urllib3.util.*]
 ignore_missing_imports = True
 
-[mypy-xmltodict.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
 [mypy-dulwich.*]
 ignore_missing_imports = True
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,5 @@
 beautifulsoup4
 launchpadlib
 tenacity >= 6.2
-xmltodict
 lxml
 dulwich
diff --git a/swh/lister/maven/lister.py b/swh/lister/maven/lister.py
--- a/swh/lister/maven/lister.py
+++ b/swh/lister/maven/lister.py
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@
 from typing import Any, Dict, Iterator, Optional
 from urllib.parse import urljoin
 
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import lxml
 import requests
 from tenacity.before_sleep import before_sleep_log
-import xmltodict
 
 from swh.core.github.utils import GitHubSession
 from swh.lister.utils import throttling_retry
@@ -252,16 +253,18 @@
         for pom in out_pom:
             try:
                 response = self.page_request(pom, {})
-                project = xmltodict.parse(response.content)
-                project_d = project.get("project", {})
-                scm_d = project_d.get("scm")
-                if scm_d is not None:
-                    connection = scm_d.get("connection")
+                parsed_pom = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "xml")
+                project = parsed_pom.find("project")
+                if project is None:
+                    continue
+                scm = project.find("scm")
+                if scm is not None:
+                    connection = scm.find("connection")
                     if connection is not None:
                         artifact_metadata_d = {
                             "type": "scm",
                             "doc": out_pom[pom],
-                            "url": connection,
+                            "url": connection.text,
                         }
                         logger.debug("* Yielding pom %s: %s", pom, artifact_metadata_d)
                         yield artifact_metadata_d
@@ -274,8 +277,8 @@
                     "POM info page could not be fetched, skipping project '%s'",
                     pom,
                 )
-            except xmltodict.expat.ExpatError as error:
-                logger.info("Could not parse POM %s XML: %s. Next.", pom, error)
+            except lxml.etree.Error as error:
+                logger.info("Could not parse POM %s XML: %s.", pom, error)
 
     def get_scm(self, page: RepoPage) -> Optional[ListedOrigin]:
         """Retrieve scm origin out of the page information. Only called when type of the
diff --git a/swh/lister/maven/tests/data/https_maven.org/citrus-parent-3.0.7.pom b/swh/lister/maven/tests/data/https_maven.org/citrus-parent-3.0.7.pom
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swh/lister/maven/tests/data/https_maven.org/citrus-parent-3.0.7.pom
@@ -0,0 +1,769 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="gb18030"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.sonatype.oss</groupId>
+        <artifactId>oss-parent</artifactId>
+        <version>7</version>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>com.alibaba.citrus</groupId>
+    <artifactId>citrus-parent</artifactId>
+    <packaging>pom</packaging>
+    <name>Citrus Parent Project</name>
+    <version>3.0.7</version>
+    <description>Another Java-based WEB Framework</description>
+    <url>http://www.openwebx.org/</url>
+    <licenses>
+        <license>
+            <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
+            <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+            <distribution>repo</distribution>
+        </license>
+    </licenses>
+    <scm>
+        <connection>scm:git:https://github.com/webx/citrus</connection>
+        <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:webx/citrus.git</developerConnection>
+        <url>http://github.com/webx/citrus</url>
+    </scm>
+    <developers>
+        <developer>
+            <id>baobao</id>
+            <name>Michael Zhou</name>
+            <email>yizhi@taobao.com</email>
+            <roles>
+                <role>architect</role>
+                <role>developer</role>
+            </roles>
+            <properties>
+                <picUrl>http://i54.tinypic.com/2jewmjr.jpg</picUrl>
+            </properties>
+            <timezone>-6</timezone>
+        </developer>
+    </developers>
+    <properties>
+        <java.version>1.5</java.version>
+        <java.encoding>GBK</java.encoding>
+        <webx-version>3.0.7</webx-version>
+        <spring-version>2.5.6.SEC03</spring-version>
+        <springext-plugin-version>1.0</springext-plugin-version>
+        <maven-util-version>1.0</maven-util-version>
+        <jetty-version>6.1.22</jetty-version>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>${java.encoding}</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    </properties>
+    <profiles>
+        <profile>
+            <id>spring3</id>
+            <properties>
+                <spring-version>3.0.6.RELEASE</spring-version>
+            </properties>
+        </profile>
+    </profiles>
+    <modules>
+        <module>dist/webx</module>
+        <module>dist/test</module>
+        <module>common/expr</module>
+        <module>common/logconfig</module>
+        <module>common/util</module>
+        <module>common/springext</module>
+        <module>common/generictype</module>
+        <module>common/asm</module>
+        <module>common/hessian</module>
+        <module>common/codegen</module>
+        <module>test/util</module>
+        <module>test/webx</module>
+        <module>service/base</module>
+        <module>service/dataresolver</module>
+        <module>service/form</module>
+        <module>service/resource</module>
+        <module>service/upload</module>
+        <module>service/requestcontext</module>
+        <module>service/pipeline</module>
+        <module>service/configuration</module>
+        <module>service/mappingrule</module>
+        <module>service/moduleloader</module>
+        <module>service/pull</module>
+        <module>service/template</module>
+        <module>service/jsp</module>
+        <module>service/velocity</module>
+        <module>service/freemarker</module>
+        <module>service/uribroker</module>
+        <module>service/mail</module>
+        <module>webx/framework</module>
+        <module>webx/turbine</module>
+        <module>webx/dev</module>
+    </modules>
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+    <dependencyManagement>
+        <dependencies>
+            <!-- ======================================== -->
+            <!-- 徨?朕卆正 -->
+            <!-- ======================================== -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-webx-all</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-test-all</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-common-logconfig</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-common-expr</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-common-util</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-common-springext</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-common-generictype</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-common-asm</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-common-hessian</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-common-codegen</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-test-util</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-test-webx</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-base</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-dataresolver</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-form</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-resource</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-upload</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-requestcontext</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-pipeline</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-configuration</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-mappingrule</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-moduleloader</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-pull</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-template</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-jsp</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-velocity</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-freemarker</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-uribroker</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-service-mail</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-webx-framework</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-webx-turbine</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+                <artifactId>citrus-webx-dev</artifactId>
+                <version>${webx-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <!-- ================================================= -->
+            <!-- 晩崗式?購卆正?喘slf4j+logback旗紋jcl+log4j? -->
+            <!-- ================================================= -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+                <version>1.6.1</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <!-- 繍?嗤議jakarta commons logging議距喘廬算撹lsf4j議距喘。 -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+                <version>1.6.1</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <!-- Hack?鳩隠commons-logging議jar淫音瓜哈秘?倦夸繍才jcl-over-slf4j喝融 -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+                <version>1.1.1</version>
+                <scope>provided</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <!-- slf4j議糞??logback?喘栖函旗log4j。厚酔、厚膿? -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+                <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+                <version>0.9.24</version>
+                <scope>runtime</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <!-- log4j議糞??姥遇音喘。 -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
+                <version>1.6.1</version>
+                <scope>runtime</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>log4j</groupId>
+                <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+                <version>1.2.16</version>
+                <scope>runtime</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <!-- ======================================== -->
+            <!-- 汽圷霞編式?購卆正 -->
+            <!-- ======================================== -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>junit</groupId>
+                <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+                <version>4.8.2</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
+                <artifactId>hamcrest-library</artifactId>
+                <version>1.1</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>httpunit</groupId>
+                <artifactId>httpunit</artifactId>
+                <version>1.7</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+                <exclusions>
+                    <exclusion>
+                        <groupId>jtidy</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>jtidy</artifactId>
+                    </exclusion>
+                </exclusions>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>rhino</groupId>
+                <artifactId>js</artifactId>
+                <version>1.7R1</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>nekohtml</groupId>
+                <artifactId>nekohtml</artifactId>
+                <version>1.9.6</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>xerces</groupId>
+                <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
+                <version>2.9.1</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+                <exclusions>
+                    <exclusion>
+                        <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
+                    </exclusion>
+                </exclusions>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>xalan</groupId>
+                <artifactId>xalan</artifactId>
+                <version>2.7.1</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+                <exclusions>
+                    <exclusion>
+                        <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
+                    </exclusion>
+                </exclusions>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
+                <artifactId>easymockclassextension</artifactId>
+                <version>3.0</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
+                <artifactId>jasper</artifactId>
+                <version>6.0.33</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.jvnet.mock-javamail</groupId>
+                <artifactId>mock-javamail</artifactId>
+                <version>1.7</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>oro</groupId>
+                <artifactId>oro</artifactId>
+                <version>2.0.8</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <!-- ======================================== -->
+            <!-- 凪万及眉圭卆正 -->
+            <!-- ======================================== -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>ecs</groupId>
+                <artifactId>ecs</artifactId>
+                <version>1.4.2</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-jexl</artifactId>
+                <version>2.0.1</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId>
+                <artifactId>velocity</artifactId>
+                <version>1.6.4</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.freemarker</groupId>
+                <artifactId>freemarker</artifactId>
+                <version>2.3.16</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
+                <version>1.2.1</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+                <version>1.4</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
+                <version>1.3</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
+                <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
+                <version>1.6.3</version>
+                <scope>runtime</scope>
+                <exclusions>
+                    <exclusion>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>ant</artifactId>
+                    </exclusion>
+                    <exclusion>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>ant-launcher</artifactId>
+                    </exclusion>
+                    <exclusion>
+                        <groupId>jline</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>jline</artifactId>
+                    </exclusion>
+                </exclusions>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>dom4j</groupId>
+                <artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>
+                <version>1.6.1</version>
+                <exclusions>
+                    <exclusion>
+                        <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
+                    </exclusion>
+                </exclusions>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>cglib</groupId>
+                <artifactId>cglib-nodep</artifactId>
+                <version>2.2</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+                <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
+                <version>2.5</version>
+                <scope>provided</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
+                <artifactId>mail</artifactId>
+                <version>1.4.1</version>
+                <scope>provided</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
+                <artifactId>activation</artifactId>
+                <version>1.1</version>
+                <scope>provided</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>janino</groupId>
+                <artifactId>janino</artifactId>
+                <version>2.5.10</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
+                <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
+                <version>1.3.04</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <!-- ======================================== -->
+            <!-- Spring卆正 -->
+            <!-- ======================================== -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
+                <version>${spring-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
+                <version>${spring-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
+                <version>${spring-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
+                <version>${spring-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
+                <version>${spring-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
+                <version>${spring-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
+                <version>${spring-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
+                <version>${spring-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
+                <version>${spring-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
+                <version>${spring-version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
+                <version>${spring-version}</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+        </dependencies>
+    </dependencyManagement>
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
+                <inherited>false</inherited>
+                <configuration>
+                    <skip>false</skip>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>${java.version}</source>
+                    <target>${java.version}</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <archive>
+                        <manifest>
+                            <addDefaultImplementationEntries>true</addDefaultImplementationEntries>
+                            <addDefaultSpecificationEntries>true</addDefaultSpecificationEntries>
+                        </manifest>
+                    </archive>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <phase>compile</phase>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <target>
+                                <echo message="project home:        ${basedir}"/>
+                                <echo message="java home:           ${java.home}"/>
+                                <echo message="java source version: ${java.version}"/>
+                                <echo message="java target version: ${java.version}"/>
+                                <echo message="java source charset: ${java.encoding}"/>
+                            </target>
+                        </configuration>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>run</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <includes>
+                        <include>**/*Tests.java</include>
+                    </includes>
+                    <argLine>-Xmx256m</argLine>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
+                    <classpathContainers>
+                        <classpathContainer>org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER</classpathContainer>
+                    </classpathContainers>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>attach-sources</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <stopKey>citrus</stopKey>
+                    <stopPort>9999</stopPort>
+                    <systemProperties>
+                        <systemProperty>
+                            <name>productionMode</name>
+                            <value>false</value>
+                        </systemProperty>
+                    </systemProperties>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>com.alibaba.citrus.tool</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-springext-plugin</artifactId>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>sign-artifacts</id>
+                        <phase>verify</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>sign</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+        <pluginManagement>
+            <plugins>
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>1.6</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <!-- 熟詰井云嗤bug?擬崑hessian音嬬園咎宥狛。 -->
+                    <version>2.3.2</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.3.2</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.7</version>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <skip>true</skip>
+                    </configuration>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.8</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>1.4</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.1.2</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.8</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.10</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>${jetty-version}</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>com.alibaba.citrus.tool</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-springext-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>${springext-plugin-version}</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>1.4</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <!-- - This plugin's configuration is used to store Eclipse
+                    m2e settings only. - It has no influence on the Maven build itself. -->
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
+                    <version>1.0.0</version>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <lifecycleMappingMetadata>
+                            <pluginExecutions>
+                                <pluginExecution>
+                                    <pluginExecutionFilter>
+                                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                                        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
+                                        <versionRange>[1.0,)</versionRange>
+                                        <goals>
+                                            <goal>run</goal>
+                                        </goals>
+                                    </pluginExecutionFilter>
+                                    <action>
+                                        <ignore/>
+                                    </action>
+                                </pluginExecution>
+                                <pluginExecution>
+                                    <pluginExecutionFilter>
+                                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                                        <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
+                                        <versionRange>[1.0,)</versionRange>
+                                        <goals>
+                                            <goal>enforce</goal>
+                                        </goals>
+                                    </pluginExecutionFilter>
+                                    <action>
+                                        <ignore/>
+                                    </action>
+                                </pluginExecution>
+                            </pluginExecutions>
+                        </lifecycleMappingMetadata>
+                    </configuration>
+                </plugin>
+            </plugins>
+        </pluginManagement>
+    </build>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/swh/lister/maven/tests/test_lister.py b/swh/lister/maven/tests/test_lister.py
--- a/swh/lister/maven/tests/test_lister.py
+++ b/swh/lister/maven/tests/test_lister.py
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@
 GIT_REPO_URL1_API = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{USER_REPO1}"
 LIST_GIT_INCR = (GIT_REPO_URL1_HTTPS,)
 
+USER_REPO2 = "webx/citrus"
+GIT_REPO_URL2_HTTPS = f"https://github.com/{USER_REPO2}"
+GIT_REPO_URL2_API = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{USER_REPO2}"
+
 LIST_SRC = (MVN_URL + "al/aldi/sprova4j",)
 
 LIST_SRC_DATA = (
@@ -91,12 +95,18 @@
     return Path(datadir, "https_maven.org", "arangodb-graphql-1.2.pom").read_bytes()
 
 
+@pytest.fixture
+def maven_pom_multi_byte_encoding(datadir) -> bytes:
+    return Path(datadir, "https_maven.org", "citrus-parent-3.0.7.pom").read_bytes()
+
+
 @pytest.fixture
 def requests_mock(requests_mock):
     """If github api calls for the configured scm repository, returns its canonical url."""
     for url_api, url_html in [
         (GIT_REPO_URL0_API, GIT_REPO_URL0_HTTPS),
         (GIT_REPO_URL1_API, GIT_REPO_URL1_HTTPS),
+        (GIT_REPO_URL2_API, GIT_REPO_URL2_HTTPS),
     ]:
         requests_mock.get(
             url_api,
@@ -351,3 +361,19 @@
     # then we get only one maven-jar origin and one git origin.
     scheduler_origins = swh_scheduler.get_listed_origins(lister.lister_obj.id).results
     assert len(scheduler_origins) == 2
+
+
+def test_maven_list_pom_multi_byte_encoding(
+    swh_scheduler, requests_mock, maven_pom_multi_byte_encoding
+):
+    """should parse POM file with multi-byte encoding."""
+
+    # replace pom file with a multi-byte encoding one
+    requests_mock.get(URL_POM_1, content=maven_pom_multi_byte_encoding)
+
+    lister = MavenLister(scheduler=swh_scheduler, url=MVN_URL, index_url=INDEX_URL)
+
+    lister.run()
+
+    scheduler_origins = swh_scheduler.get_listed_origins(lister.lister_obj.id).results
+    assert len(scheduler_origins) == 3