diff --git a/core/commons/che-core-commons-lang/pom.xml b/core/commons/che-core-commons-lang/pom.xml
index 0f99ed5da6..ef6f441d09 100644
--- a/core/commons/che-core-commons-lang/pom.xml
+++ b/core/commons/che-core-commons-lang/pom.xml
@@ -34,10 +34,6 @@
             <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
             <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
diff --git a/core/commons/che-core-commons-lang/src/main/java/org/eclipse/che/commons/lang/TarUtils.java b/core/commons/che-core-commons-lang/src/main/java/org/eclipse/che/commons/lang/TarUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 425f6e85c2..0000000000
--- a/core/commons/che-core-commons-lang/src/main/java/org/eclipse/che/commons/lang/TarUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,206 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (c) 2012-2021 Red Hat, Inc.
- * This program and the accompanying materials are made
- * available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
- * which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
- *
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
- *
- * Contributors:
- *   Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation
- */
-package org.eclipse.che.commons.lang;
-
-import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
-import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
-import java.io.FilenameFilter;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.util.LinkedList;
-import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveEntry;
-import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveInputStream;
-import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveOutputStream;
-
-/** @author andrew00x */
-public class TarUtils {
-  private static final int BUF_SIZE = 4096;
-
-  /**
-   * Add content of directory {@code dir} to tar archive {@code tar}.
-   *
-   * @param parentPath parent path of tar archive. Typically if need add only content of {@code dir}
-   *     this path should be absolute path to {@code dir} but if need to have in archive some
-   *     parents this parameter may be used. For example if need add to archive content of directory
-   *     '/a/b/c' but need to save directory 'c' in path:
-   *     <pre>
-   *                         {@code File dir = new File("a/b/c");
-   *                      File tar = new File("archive.tar");
-   *                      TarUtils.tarDir(dir.getParentFile().getAbsolutePath(), dir, tar, -1, IoUtil.ANY_FILTER);
-   *                         }
-   *                         </pre>
-   *     In this case directory 'c' is added in tar archive.
-   * @param dir dir to add
-   * @param tar tar archive
-   * @param modTime modification time that applied to all entries in archive instead modification
-   *     time provided by method {@link File#lastModified()}. This parameter should be {@code -1} if
-   *     don't need to set any specified time
-   * @param filter optional filter for files to add in archive
-   * @throws IOException if i/o error occurs
-   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code dir} is not directory or if {@code parentPath} is
-   *     invalid, e.g. is neither parent nor equals to path of {@code dir}
-   */
-  public static void tarDir(
-      String parentPath, File dir, File tar, long modTime, FilenameFilter filter)
-      throws IOException {
-    if (!dir.isDirectory()) {
-      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Not a directory.");
-    }
-    if (!dir.getAbsolutePath().startsWith(parentPath)) {
-      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid parent directory path " + parentPath);
-    }
-    if (filter == null) {
-      filter = IoUtil.ANY_FILTER;
-    }
-    try (TarArchiveOutputStream tarOut =
-        new TarArchiveOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(tar)))) {
-      tarOut.setLongFileMode(TarArchiveOutputStream.LONGFILE_POSIX);
-      addDirectoryRecursively(tarOut, parentPath, dir, modTime, filter);
-    }
-  }
-
-  public static void tarDir(String parentPath, File dir, File tar, FilenameFilter filter)
-      throws IOException {
-    tarDir(parentPath, dir, tar, -1, filter);
-  }
-
-  public static void tarFiles(File tar, long modTime, File... files) throws IOException {
-    try (TarArchiveOutputStream tarOut =
-        new TarArchiveOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(tar)))) {
-      tarOut.setLongFileMode(TarArchiveOutputStream.LONGFILE_POSIX);
-      for (File f : files) {
-        if (f.isDirectory()) {
-          addDirectoryEntry(tarOut, f.getName(), f, modTime);
-          final String parentPath = f.getParentFile().getAbsolutePath();
-          addDirectoryRecursively(tarOut, parentPath, f, modTime, IoUtil.ANY_FILTER);
-        } else if (f.isFile()) {
-          addFileEntry(tarOut, f.getName(), f, modTime);
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  public static void tarFiles(File tar, File... files) throws IOException {
-    tarFiles(tar, -1, files);
-  }
-
-  private static void addDirectoryRecursively(
-      TarArchiveOutputStream tarOut,
-      String parentPath,
-      File dir,
-      long modTime,
-      FilenameFilter filter)
-      throws IOException {
-    final int parentPathLength = parentPath.length() + 1;
-    final LinkedList<File> q = new LinkedList<>();
-    q.add(dir);
-    while (!q.isEmpty()) {
-      final File current = q.pop();
-      final File[] list = current.listFiles();
-      if (list != null) {
-        for (File f : list) {
-          if (filter.accept(current, f.getName())) {
-            final String entryName =
-                f.getAbsolutePath().substring(parentPathLength).replace('\\', '/');
-            if (f.isDirectory()) {
-              addDirectoryEntry(tarOut, entryName, f, modTime);
-              q.push(f);
-            } else if (f.isFile()) {
-              addFileEntry(tarOut, entryName, f, modTime);
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  private static void addDirectoryEntry(
-      TarArchiveOutputStream tarOut, String entryName, File directory, long modTime)
-      throws IOException {
-    final TarArchiveEntry tarEntry = new TarArchiveEntry(directory, entryName);
-    if (modTime >= 0) {
-      tarEntry.setModTime(modTime);
-    }
-    tarOut.putArchiveEntry(tarEntry);
-    tarOut.closeArchiveEntry();
-  }
-
-  private static void addFileEntry(
-      TarArchiveOutputStream tarOut, String entryName, File file, long modTime) throws IOException {
-    final TarArchiveEntry tarEntry = new TarArchiveEntry(file, entryName);
-    if (modTime >= 0) {
-      tarEntry.setModTime(modTime);
-    }
-    tarOut.putArchiveEntry(tarEntry);
-    try (InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file))) {
-      final byte[] buf = new byte[BUF_SIZE];
-      int r;
-      while ((r = in.read(buf)) != -1) {
-        tarOut.write(buf, 0, r);
-      }
-    }
-    tarOut.closeArchiveEntry();
-  }
-
-  public static void untar(File tar, File targetDir) throws IOException {
-    try (InputStream in = new FileInputStream(tar)) {
-      untar(in, targetDir);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /** @apiNote Caller should close `in` after calling this method. */
-  public static void untar(InputStream in, File targetDir) throws IOException {
-    final TarArchiveInputStream tarIn = new TarArchiveInputStream(in);
-    byte[] b = new byte[BUF_SIZE];
-    TarArchiveEntry tarEntry;
-    while ((tarEntry = tarIn.getNextTarEntry()) != null) {
-      final File file = new File(targetDir, tarEntry.getName());
-      if (tarEntry.isDirectory()) {
-        if (!file.mkdirs()) {
-          throw new IOException("Unable to create folder " + file.getAbsolutePath());
-        }
-      } else {
-        final File parent = file.getParentFile();
-        if (!parent.exists()) {
-          if (!parent.mkdirs()) {
-            throw new IOException("Unable to create folder " + parent.getAbsolutePath());
-          }
-        }
-        try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file)) {
-          int r;
-          while ((r = tarIn.read(b)) != -1) {
-            fos.write(b, 0, r);
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  public static boolean isTarFile(File file) throws IOException {
-    if (file.isDirectory()) {
-      return false;
-    }
-    // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)#File_header
-    final byte[] header = new byte[512];
-    try (FileInputStream fIn = new FileInputStream(file)) {
-      if (fIn.read(header) != header.length) {
-        return false;
-      }
-    }
-    return TarArchiveInputStream.matches(header, header.length);
-  }
-
-  private TarUtils() {}
-}
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 696ac03e2d..cfb20dd218 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@
         <com.squareup.okhttp3.version>3.12.12</com.squareup.okhttp3.version>
         <com.squareup.okio.version>1.15.0</com.squareup.okio.version>
         <commons-codec.version>1.11</commons-codec.version>
-        <commons-compress.version>1.19</commons-compress.version>
         <commons-fileupload.version>1.3.3</commons-fileupload.version>
         <commons-io.version>2.8.0</commons-io.version>
         <commons-lang.version>2.6</commons-lang.version>
@@ -548,11 +547,6 @@
                 <artifactId>ST4</artifactId>
                 <version>${org.antlr.st4.version}</version>
             </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
-                <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-                <version>${commons-compress.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
                 <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>