diff --git a/virtapi/requirements.txt b/virtapi/requirements.txt
index b2c8d0a..4542f54 100644
--- a/virtapi/requirements.txt
+++ b/virtapi/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 libvirt-python
 xmltodict==0.10.1
-pyyaml==3.12
+pyyaml==5.4
 requests>=2.20.0
 prettytable==0.7.2
 lxml