diff --git a/runtimes/datascience/ubi9-python-3.9/utils/requirements-elyra.txt b/runtimes/datascience/ubi9-python-3.9/utils/requirements-elyra.txt
index ddf75d0c58..f7446bc015 100644
--- a/runtimes/datascience/ubi9-python-3.9/utils/requirements-elyra.txt
+++ b/runtimes/datascience/ubi9-python-3.9/utils/requirements-elyra.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ prompt-toolkit==3.0.30
 requests==2.31.0
 tornado==6.3.3
 traitlets==5.1.1
-urllib3==1.26.9
+urllib3==2.6.0
 #
 # These excluded are transitive dependencies of the included python packages.
 #ansiwrap==0.8.4