diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 88884e1..1e32703 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ numpy>=1.24
 scipy>=1.10
 matplotlib>=3.7
 seaborn>=0.12
-chardet>=5.0         # magic-data-loading (encoding detection)
+chardet>=7.4.3         # magic-data-loading (encoding detection)
 openpyxl>=3.1        # magic-data-loading (Excel file support)
 pyarrow>=14.0        # magic-data-loading (Parquet file support)
 pyyaml>=6.0          # config parsing