diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1c47901c3..a2a43ff80 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Copyright (c) 2012 - Jeremy Long
         <org.jmockit.version>1.38</org.jmockit.version>
 
         <jsoup.version>1.11.2</jsoup.version>
-        <commons-compress.version>1.15</commons-compress.version>
+        <commons-compress.version>1.16</commons-compress.version>
         <org.apache.maven.shared.file-management.version>3.0.0</org.apache.maven.shared.file-management.version>
         <maven-plugin-testing-harness.version>3.3.0</maven-plugin-testing-harness.version>
         <maven-plugin-annotations.version>3.5.1</maven-plugin-annotations.version>