diff --git a/daemons/area-deletion-daemon/requirements.txt b/daemons/area-deletion-daemon/requirements.txt
index 96c20ae2..97e0630a 100644
--- a/daemons/area-deletion-daemon/requirements.txt
+++ b/daemons/area-deletion-daemon/requirements.txt
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ requests==2.32.0
 s3transfer<0.3.0,>=0.2.0
 SQLAlchemy==1.3.2
 tenacity==5.0.2
+urllib3>=1.26.19 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability