diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cedfc97..1ee6f03 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
       scripts=['vatool'],
       install_requires=[
 	'libvirt-python',
-	'lxml==4.1.0',
+	'lxml==4.9.1',
 	'paramiko>=2.2.4',
 	'prettytable==0.7.2',
 	'xmltodict==0.10.1',