diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e1563f2d3..7e96478ba 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 Django==5.1.4
 django-allauth[socialaccount]==65.2.0
 matplotlib==3.8.3
-urllib3==1.26.19
+urllib3==2.5.0
 # scipy==1.12.0 # big package, only used when attemping to get the github activity graph -> not implemented ATM
 django-widget-tweaks==1.5.0
 SQLAlchemy==1.3.24 #  <1.4 is important (test_sync_tags_keywords_969, test_issue_832_tag_filter_with_missing_tag)