diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a106490cbf..22bbebaade 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
     <cloudant.version>2.19.1</cloudant.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.15</commons-codec.version>
     <commons-collection4.version>4.4</commons-collection4.version>
-    <commons-compress.version>1.21</commons-compress.version>
+    <commons-compress.version>1.26.0</commons-compress.version>
     <commons-configuration.version>1.10</commons-configuration.version>
     <commons-csv.version>1.9.0</commons-csv.version>
     <commons-io.version>2.11.0</commons-io.version>