diff --git a/base-requirements.txt b/base-requirements.txt
index fc681bce5..ed65c1acf 100644
--- a/base-requirements.txt
+++ b/base-requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ cmarkgfm==0.6.0
 Pillow==10.4.0
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.9
 python3-openid==3.2.0
-python-decouple==3.4
+python-decouple==3.8
 # lxml used by BeautifulSoup.
 lxml==5.2.2
 cssselect==1.1.0