diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 30b3028eb6..a34cc6f44b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ requests
 SQLAlchemy>=1.4.1
 tornado>=5.1
 traitlets>=4.3.2
+cryptography>=46.0.5 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability