diff --git a/mflix/server/python-fastapi/requirements.in b/mflix/server/python-fastapi/requirements.in
index b6000a1..b1542a4 100644
--- a/mflix/server/python-fastapi/requirements.in
+++ b/mflix/server/python-fastapi/requirements.in
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ dnspython~=2.8.0        # Required for SRV record lookups by pymongo (e.g., Mong
 httpx~=0.28.0           # Asynchronous HTTP client for requests to external APIs
 email-validator~=2.3.0  # Utility for validating email addresses
 voyageai~=0.3.5         # Vector embeddings API client
+urllib3>=2.6.0          # HTTP library
 
 # ==============================================================================
 # 5. CLI & DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
diff --git a/mflix/server/python-fastapi/requirements.txt b/mflix/server/python-fastapi/requirements.txt
index 682f33f..e2a8635 100644
--- a/mflix/server/python-fastapi/requirements.txt
+++ b/mflix/server/python-fastapi/requirements.txt
@@ -218,8 +218,9 @@ typing-extensions==4.15.0
     #   typing-inspection
 typing-inspection==0.4.2
     # via pydantic
-urllib3==2.5.0
+urllib3==2.6.1
     # via
+    #   -r requirements.in
     #   requests
     #   sentry-sdk
 uvicorn[standard]==0.38.0