diff --git a/its/autoscan/src/test/resources/autoscan/autoscan-diff-by-rules.json b/its/autoscan/src/test/resources/autoscan/autoscan-diff-by-rules.json
index c3d7153fd8..bdd7c5cfca 100644
--- a/its/autoscan/src/test/resources/autoscan/autoscan-diff-by-rules.json
+++ b/its/autoscan/src/test/resources/autoscan/autoscan-diff-by-rules.json
@@ -1991,12 +1991,6 @@
     "falseNegatives": 0,
     "falsePositives": 0
   },
-  {
-    "ruleKey": "S5042",
-    "hasTruePositives": true,
-    "falseNegatives": 8,
-    "falsePositives": 0
-  },
   {
     "ruleKey": "S5122",
     "hasTruePositives": true,
diff --git a/its/autoscan/src/test/resources/autoscan/diffs/diff_S5042.json b/its/autoscan/src/test/resources/autoscan/diffs/diff_S5042.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 8946310adf..0000000000
--- a/its/autoscan/src/test/resources/autoscan/diffs/diff_S5042.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "ruleKey": "S5042",
-  "hasTruePositives": true,
-  "falseNegatives": 8,
-  "falsePositives": 0
-}
diff --git a/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/S5042.html b/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/S5042.html
index bdefae31c1..42cc42aaed 100644
--- a/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/S5042.html
+++ b/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/S5042.html
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+<p>This rule is deprecated, and will eventually be removed.</p>
 <p>Successful Zip Bomb attacks occur when an application expands untrusted archive files without controlling the size of the expanded data, which can
 lead to denial of service. A Zip bomb is usually a malicious archive file of a few kilobytes of compressed data but turned into gigabytes of
 uncompressed data. To achieve this extreme <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression_ratio">compression ratio</a>, attackers will
diff --git a/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/S5042.json b/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/S5042.json
index 971b1ad13f..32484b21a1 100644
--- a/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/S5042.json
+++ b/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/S5042.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     },
     "attribute": "COMPLETE"
   },
-  "status": "ready",
+  "status": "deprecated",
   "remediation": {
     "func": "Constant\/Issue",
     "constantCost": "10min"
diff --git a/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/Sonar_agentic_AI_profile.json b/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/Sonar_agentic_AI_profile.json
index 50a1ca0a6b..ee61a18f46 100644
--- a/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/Sonar_agentic_AI_profile.json
+++ b/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/Sonar_agentic_AI_profile.json
@@ -314,7 +314,6 @@
     "S4830",
     "S4970",
     "S4973",
-    "S5042",
     "S5122",
     "S5164",
     "S5247",
diff --git a/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/Sonar_way_profile.json b/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/Sonar_way_profile.json
index a2cc9e26a9..ab7c96504a 100644
--- a/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/Sonar_way_profile.json
+++ b/sonar-java-plugin/src/main/resources/org/sonar/l10n/java/rules/java/Sonar_way_profile.json
@@ -337,7 +337,6 @@
     "S4970",
     "S4973",
     "S4977",
-    "S5042",
     "S5122",
     "S5164",
     "S5247",
diff --git a/sonar-java-plugin/src/test/java/org/sonar/plugins/java/JavaAgenticWayProfileTest.java b/sonar-java-plugin/src/test/java/org/sonar/plugins/java/JavaAgenticWayProfileTest.java
index 07b8e02b4e..8f2933b4a3 100644
--- a/sonar-java-plugin/src/test/java/org/sonar/plugins/java/JavaAgenticWayProfileTest.java
+++ b/sonar-java-plugin/src/test/java/org/sonar/plugins/java/JavaAgenticWayProfileTest.java
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ void profile_is_registered_as_expected() {
     BuiltInQualityProfilesDefinition.BuiltInQualityProfile actualProfile = profilesPerLanguages.get("java").get("Sonar agentic AI");
     assertThat(actualProfile.isDefault()).isFalse();
     assertThat(actualProfile.rules())
-      .hasSize(468)
+      .hasSize(467)
       .extracting(BuiltInQualityProfilesDefinition.BuiltInActiveRule::ruleKey)
       .doesNotContainAnyElementsOf(List.of(
         "S101",