diff --git a/multiapps-mta/pom.xml b/multiapps-mta/pom.xml
index 8d15aac6..8000dd49 100644
--- a/multiapps-mta/pom.xml
+++ b/multiapps-mta/pom.xml
@@ -20,10 +20,6 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.vdurmont</groupId>
             <artifactId>semver4j</artifactId>
diff --git a/multiapps-mta/src/main/java/module-info.java b/multiapps-mta/src/main/java/module-info.java
index 6394a884..3ab88054 100644
--- a/multiapps-mta/src/main/java/module-info.java
+++ b/multiapps-mta/src/main/java/module-info.java
@@ -33,6 +33,5 @@
 
     requires static java.compiler;
     requires static org.immutables.value;
-    requires commons.fileupload;
 
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/multiapps-mta/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/mta/handlers/ArchiveHandler.java b/multiapps-mta/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/mta/handlers/ArchiveHandler.java
index b688eaac..65495a89 100644
--- a/multiapps-mta/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/mta/handlers/ArchiveHandler.java
+++ b/multiapps-mta/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/mta/handlers/ArchiveHandler.java
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@
 import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
 import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
 
-import org.apache.commons.fileupload.util.LimitedInputStream;
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.cloudfoundry.multiapps.common.ContentException;
 import org.cloudfoundry.multiapps.common.SLException;
 import org.cloudfoundry.multiapps.mta.Messages;
+import org.cloudfoundry.multiapps.mta.util.LimitedInputStream;
 
 public class ArchiveHandler {
 
diff --git a/multiapps-mta/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/mta/util/LimitedInputStream.java b/multiapps-mta/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/mta/util/LimitedInputStream.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d9aabef2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/multiapps-mta/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/mta/util/LimitedInputStream.java
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package org.cloudfoundry.multiapps.mta.util;
+
+import java.io.FilterInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
+
+public abstract class LimitedInputStream extends FilterInputStream {
+
+    private final AtomicLong counter;
+    private final long maxSize;
+
+    public LimitedInputStream(InputStream in, long maxSize) {
+        super(in);
+        this.counter = new AtomicLong(0);
+        this.maxSize = maxSize;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int read() throws IOException {
+        int i = super.read();
+        if (i > 0) {
+            counter.incrementAndGet();
+            checkSize();
+        }
+        return i;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
+        int i = super.read(b, off, len);
+        if (i > 0) {
+            counter.addAndGet(i);
+            checkSize();
+        }
+        return i;
+    }
+
+    private void checkSize() {
+        long currentSize = counter.get();
+        if (currentSize >= maxSize) {
+            raiseError(maxSize, currentSize);
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected abstract void raiseError(long maxSize, long currentSize);
+}
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8bd681aa..ac84b8e3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
         <commons-lang3.version>3.12.0</commons-lang3.version>
         <commons-collections4.version>4.4</commons-collections4.version>
         <commons-io.version>2.11.0</commons-io.version>
-        <commons-fileupload.version>1.5</commons-fileupload.version>
         <slf4j.version>2.0.6</slf4j.version>
         <snakeyaml.version>2.0</snakeyaml.version>
         <semver4j.version>3.1.0</semver4j.version>
@@ -304,12 +303,6 @@
                 <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
                 <version>${commons-io.version}</version>
             </dependency>
-            <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-fileupload/commons-fileupload -->
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
-                <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
-                <version>${commons-fileupload.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
             <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.yaml/snakeyaml -->
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>