diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3e1b7815d..691fda8dd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -62,5 +62,3 @@ Acknowledgments
 
 - This project's Solver started out as a PHP port of openSUSE's
   [Libzypp satsolver](https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Libzypp_satsolver).
-- This project uses hiddeninput.exe to prompt for passwords on windows, sources
-  and details can be found on the [github page of the project](https://github.com/Seldaek/hidden-input).
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 60c85711e..7cecf7cae 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
         "symfony/process": "^2.7 || ^3.0 || ^4.0",
         "symfony/filesystem": "^2.7 || ^3.0 || ^4.0",
         "seld/phar-utils": "^1.0",
-        "seld/cli-prompt": "^1.0",
         "psr/log": "^1.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 4b7e927d9..5cf0feae0 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "c6378672910186460447c90de26a6c03",
+    "content-hash": "2dc8cdba11ff8ac7c8fd9a3767af326b",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "composer/ca-bundle",
@@ -342,54 +342,6 @@
             ],
             "time": "2016-10-10T12:19:37+00:00"
         },
-        {
-            "name": "seld/cli-prompt",
-            "version": "1.0.3",
-            "source": {
-                "type": "git",
-                "url": "https://github.com/Seldaek/cli-prompt.git",
-                "reference": "a19a7376a4689d4d94cab66ab4f3c816019ba8dd"
-            },
-            "dist": {
-                "type": "zip",
-                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Seldaek/cli-prompt/zipball/a19a7376a4689d4d94cab66ab4f3c816019ba8dd",
-                "reference": "a19a7376a4689d4d94cab66ab4f3c816019ba8dd",
-                "shasum": ""
-            },
-            "require": {
-                "php": ">=5.3"
-            },
-            "type": "library",
-            "extra": {
-                "branch-alias": {
-                    "dev-master": "1.x-dev"
-                }
-            },
-            "autoload": {
-                "psr-4": {
-                    "Seld\\CliPrompt\\": "src/"
-                }
-            },
-            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
-            "license": [
-                "MIT"
-            ],
-            "authors": [
-                {
-                    "name": "Jordi Boggiano",
-                    "email": "j.boggiano@seld.be"
-                }
-            ],
-            "description": "Allows you to prompt for user input on the command line, and optionally hide the characters they type",
-            "keywords": [
-                "cli",
-                "console",
-                "hidden",
-                "input",
-                "prompt"
-            ],
-            "time": "2017-03-18T11:32:45+00:00"
-        },
         {
             "name": "seld/jsonlint",
             "version": "1.7.1",
diff --git a/src/Composer/Compiler.php b/src/Composer/Compiler.php
index 3fdbcd867..4064b20b5 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Compiler.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Compiler.php
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ class Compiler
         foreach ($finder as $file) {
             $this->addFile($phar, $file, false);
         }
-        $this->addFile($phar, new \SplFileInfo(__DIR__ . '/../../vendor/seld/cli-prompt/res/hiddeninput.exe'), false);
+        $this->addFile($phar, new \SplFileInfo(__DIR__ . '/../../vendor/symfony/console/Resources/bin/hiddeninput.exe'), false);
 
         $finder = new Finder();
         $finder->files()
@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ class Compiler
             ->exclude('docs')
             ->in(__DIR__.'/../../vendor/symfony/')
             ->in(__DIR__.'/../../vendor/seld/jsonlint/')
-            ->in(__DIR__.'/../../vendor/seld/cli-prompt/')
             ->in(__DIR__.'/../../vendor/justinrainbow/json-schema/')
             ->in(__DIR__.'/../../vendor/composer/spdx-licenses/')
             ->in(__DIR__.'/../../vendor/composer/semver/')
diff --git a/src/Composer/IO/ConsoleIO.php b/src/Composer/IO/ConsoleIO.php
index 55c80e29c..c0f235659 100644
--- a/src/Composer/IO/ConsoleIO.php
+++ b/src/Composer/IO/ConsoleIO.php
@@ -272,9 +272,12 @@ class ConsoleIO extends BaseIO
      */
     public function askAndHideAnswer($question)
     {
-        $this->writeError($question, false);
+        /** @var \Symfony\Component\Console\Helper\QuestionHelper $helper */
+        $helper = $this->helperSet->get('question');
+        $question = new Question($question);
+        $question->setHidden(true);
 
-        return \Seld\CliPrompt\CliPrompt::hiddenPrompt(true);
+        return $helper->ask($this->input, $this->getErrorOutput(), $question);
     }
 
     /**