diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 003a60653c9..df60bdf1adb 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-        <version>1.19</version>
+        <version>1.21</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>