diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 0189a995..364cbfd5 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ flask==1.1.2
 # itsdangerous 1.1.0 is available on centos7. Newest versions will cause
 # deprecation warnings with flask 1.1.2
 itsdangerous==1.1.0
-Werkzeug==1.0.1
+Werkzeug==2.2.3
 pymongo==3.6.1
 file-magic
 # Latest fakeredis (version 1.7.1) is incompatible with redis 4.2.0. The pip