diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4b3bd2334c6a..f17da7e432b3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
     <snappy.version>1.1.8.2</snappy.version>
     <netlib.java.version>1.1.2</netlib.java.version>
     <commons-codec.version>1.15</commons-codec.version>
-    <commons-compress.version>1.20</commons-compress.version>
+    <commons-compress.version>1.21</commons-compress.version>
     <commons-io.version>2.8.0</commons-io.version>
     <!-- org.apache.commons/commons-lang/-->
     <commons-lang2.version>2.6</commons-lang2.version>