diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index d664412..e5ea7ca 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ django-cors-headers==3.2.0
 djangorestframework==3.10.3
 djangorestframework-jwt==1.11.0
 Pillow==6.2.1
-PyJWT==1.7.1
+PyJWT==2.4.0
 pytils==0.3
 pytz==2019.3
 sqlparse==0.3.0