diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 667343ad95..b87b7c0fa6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ oauthlib==2.0.0
 Pillow==3.3.1
 python-editor==1.0.1
 pytz==2016.6.1
-PyYAML==3.12
+PyYAML==5.4
 requests==2.11.1
 requests-oauthlib==0.6.2
 selenium==2.53.6