diff --git a/authentication/models.py b/authentication/models.py
index c621ae20fe..e49ab0679e 100644
--- a/authentication/models.py
+++ b/authentication/models.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
 from django.db import models
 from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
-from ipware.utils import is_private_ip
+from python_ipware import IpWare
 
 from main.models import TimestampedModel
 
@@ -40,11 +40,13 @@ class BlockedIPRange(TimestampedModel):
     ip_end = models.GenericIPAddressField(null=False, blank=False)
 
     def clean(self):
+        ipw = IpWare()
         for ip in (self.ip_start, self.ip_end):
             if ip is None:
                 msg = "IP cannot be null"
                 raise ValidationError(msg, code="invalid")
-            if is_private_ip(ip):
+            ipw_ip = ipw.parse_ip_address(ip)
+            if ipw_ip.is_private:
                 msg = f"IP {ip} is not routable"
                 raise ValidationError(msg, code="invalid")
         if ip_address(self.ip_start) > ip_address(self.ip_end):
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 5f5627ab9e..9917762d84 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1034,15 +1034,18 @@ async-rq = ["django-rq (>=0.6.0)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "django-ipware"
-version = "3.0.7"
+version = "7.0.1"
 description = "A Django application to retrieve user's IP address"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*, !=3.5.*"
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "django-ipware-3.0.7.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:753f8214a16ccaac54ea977349a96e37b582a28a54065e00c1c46d530862c85e"},
-    {file = "django_ipware-3.0.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:a18820ea2b98ff3f87b7530eb6346f5feb65d18e89397606aacc098fa7b93db2"},
+    {file = "django-ipware-7.0.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:d9ec43d2bf7cdf216fed8d494a084deb5761a54860a53b2e74346a4f384cff47"},
+    {file = "django_ipware-7.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:db16bbee920f661ae7f678e4270460c85850f03c6761a4eaeb489bdc91f64709"},
 ]
 
+[package.dependencies]
+python-ipware = ">=2.0.3"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "django-json-widget"
 version = "1.1.1"
@@ -2796,6 +2799,20 @@ files = [
 [package.dependencies]
 six = ">=1.5"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "python-ipware"
+version = "3.0.0"
+description = "A Python package to retrieve user's IP address"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "python_ipware-3.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:fc936e6e7ec9fcc107f9315df40658f468ac72f739482a707181742882e36b60"},
+    {file = "python_ipware-3.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:9117b1c4dddcb5d5ca49e6a9617de2fc66aec2ef35394563ac4eecabdf58c062"},
+]
+
+[package.extras]
+dev = ["coverage[toml]", "coveralls (>=3.3,<4.0)", "ruff", "twine"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "python-rapidjson"
 version = "1.16"
@@ -3951,4 +3968,4 @@ testing = ["big-O", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more-itertools", "p
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "3.12.3"
-content-hash = "c0a0acc76f21e06cba9b98fc5c79b3724355fe0721831bf47688ac14510d7f9d"
+content-hash = "312ec8cc6ef9e720c7e567a3e0c383d5ecef0f92ea508c15b9edb817359ea10d"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cdc9edbd2f..1bf4791d85 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ django-filter = "^2.4.0"
 django-guardian = "^2.4.0"
 django-hijack = "^3.4.1"
 django-imagekit = "^5.0.0"
-django-ipware = "^3.0.7"
+django-ipware = "^7.0.0"
 django-json-widget = "^1.0.0"
 django-redis = "^5.2.0"
 django-server-status = "^0.7.0"