diff --git a/requirements_common.txt b/requirements_common.txt
index 072790761dd..1b8d5674bc6 100644
--- a/requirements_common.txt
+++ b/requirements_common.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ supervisor==3.0a12; python_version < '3.0'
 web.py==0.33; python_version < '3.0'
 web.py==0.40-dev1; python_version >= '3.0'
 pystatsd==0.1.6
-PyYAML==4.2b1
+PyYAML==5.4
 eventer==0.1.1
 lepl==5.1.3
 six==1.12.0