diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6120e44..9d4e711 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ pycodestyle==2.9.1
 pydantic==1.10.13
 pyflakes==2.5.0
 sniffio==1.3.0
-starlette==0.27.0
+starlette==0.40.0
 tomli==2.0.1
 typing_extensions==4.4.0
 uvicorn==0.19.0