diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index dfb9fcf5..941877d2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 # Optional charset auto-detection
 # Used in our test cases
-chardet==5.0.0
+chardet==5.1.0
 types-chardet==5.0.3
 
 # Documentation