diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 27effb5ffe0f..80e9e495ef8b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
     <datanucleus-rdbms.version>3.2.9</datanucleus-rdbms.version>
     <commons-cli.version>1.2</commons-cli.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.4</commons-codec.version>
-    <commons-compress.version>1.4.1</commons-compress.version>
+    <commons-compress.version>1.26.0</commons-compress.version>
     <commons-exec.version>1.1</commons-exec.version>
     <commons-httpclient.version>3.0.1</commons-httpclient.version>
     <commons-io.version>2.4</commons-io.version>