diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 6f16086f..b847ce12 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ pyOpenSSL==23.2.0
 pyparsing==3.0.6
 python3-openid==3.2.0
 pytz==2021.3
-PyYAML==5.4
+PyYAML==6.0.1
 redis==4.5.5
 requests==2.31.0
 requests-oauthlib==1.3.0