diff --git a/onebusaway-alerts-persistence/pom.xml b/onebusaway-alerts-persistence/pom.xml
index 82c3165a1..6cc66f6b8 100644
--- a/onebusaway-alerts-persistence/pom.xml
+++ b/onebusaway-alerts-persistence/pom.xml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-			<version>1.18</version>
+			<version>1.26.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-lang</groupId>