diff --git a/packages/@ionic/cli/package.json b/packages/@ionic/cli/package.json
index 0d06294f39..bbda4dbea9 100644
--- a/packages/@ionic/cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/@ionic/cli/package.json
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
     "stream-combiner2": "^1.1.1",
     "superagent": "^5.2.1",
     "superagent-proxy": "^2.0.0",
-    "tar": "^5.0.5",
+    "tar": "^6.0.1",
     "through2": "^3.0.0",
     "tslib": "^1.9.0",
     "uuid": "^3.2.1"