diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c5d7949f19c..3c3cc4ed80a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 - Add bft-style blockperiodseconds transitions to Clique [#6596](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/6596)
 - RocksDB database metadata refactoring [#6555](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/6555)
 - Make layered txpool aware of minGasPrice and minPriorityFeePerGas dynamic options [#6611](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/6611)
+- Update commons-compress to 1.26.0 [#6648](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/6648)
 
 ### Bug fixes
 
diff --git a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
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diff --git a/gradle/versions.gradle b/gradle/versions.gradle
index 7c2967ffc20..c7d1f87aa6b 100644
--- a/gradle/versions.gradle
+++ b/gradle/versions.gradle
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ dependencyManagement {
 
     dependency 'net.java.dev.jna:jna:5.14.0'
 
-    dependency 'org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.25.0'
+    dependency 'org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.26.0'
     dependency 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.14.0'
     dependency 'org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.11.0'