diff --git a/tools/dhis2-metadata_flat_file_syncer/requirements.txt b/tools/dhis2-metadata_flat_file_syncer/requirements.txt
index 94dd7335..8af819ce 100644
--- a/tools/dhis2-metadata_flat_file_syncer/requirements.txt
+++ b/tools/dhis2-metadata_flat_file_syncer/requirements.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,6 @@ requests==2.32.4
 requests-oauthlib==1.3.1
 rsa==4.9
 six==1.16.0
-urllib3==1.26.18
+urllib3==2.6.0
 validators==0.20.0
 Werkzeug==3.0.6