diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bd4669ba..0b3d5511 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
         <!-- dependency versions a..z -->
         <apiguardian-api.version>1.0.0</apiguardian-api.version>
         <assertj.version>3.16.1</assertj.version>
-        <commons-compress.version>1.20</commons-compress.version>
+        <commons-compress.version>1.21</commons-compress.version>
         <graalvm.version>20.3.0</graalvm.version>
         <groovy.version>3.0.7</groovy.version>
         <jakarta.inject.version>1.0</jakarta.inject.version>