diff --git a/requirements/requirements-kb.txt b/requirements/requirements-kb.txt
index 334e7c0f352..9cf55e90a56 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-kb.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-kb.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-lxml==5.3.0 # Is this transitive dependency?
+lxml==6.1.0 # Is this transitive dependency?
 faiss-cpu==1.13.2 # default vector storage