diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index aeb62f20..702448eb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ python-linux-procfs==0.4.9
 pytz==2016.10
 pyudev==0.15
 pyxattr==0.5.1
-PyYAML==3.10
+PyYAML==5.4
 radon==4.0.0
 repoze.lru==0.4
 requests==2.6.0