diff --git a/salt/app-packages/files/app-packages-requirements.txt b/salt/app-packages/files/app-packages-requirements.txt
index 9c0a45467..d836053d1 100644
--- a/salt/app-packages/files/app-packages-requirements.txt
+++ b/salt/app-packages/files/app-packages-requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ kafka-python==1.3.5
 PyHDFS==0.1.2
 pykafka==2.7.0
 pywebhdfs==0.4.1
-PyYAML==3.12
+PyYAML==5.4
 thrift==0.9.3
 thrift_sasl==0.2.1
 thriftpy==0.3.9