diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1cb2c5ee393..85d9362eccd 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ html2text==2020.1.16
 humanize==3.12.0
 jira==3.0.1
 PyGithub==1.55
-lxml==4.6.3
+lxml==4.7.1
 Markdown==3.3.4
 mysqlclient==2.0.3
 openpyxl==3.0.9