diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c82b901..61e9c08 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "fastjsonschema (>=2.21.2,<3.0.0)",
     "genai-prices==0.0.55", # pin version due to frequent API changes
     "jinja2 (>=3.1.5,<4.0.0)",
-    "litellm==1.82.2", # pin version due to occasional instability between patches and minor versions
+    "litellm==1.83.0", # pin version due to occasional instability between patches and minor versions (bumped for CVE-2026-35030)
     "lxml (>=5.4.0,<7.0.0)",
     "openai==2.21.0", # pinned version for stable compatibility with litellm (after issue with 1.100.0)
     "pillow (>=11.3.0,<12.0.0)",