diff --git a/users_backend/requirements.txt b/users_backend/requirements.txt
index 44d5741..64844ec 100644
--- a/users_backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/users_backend/requirements.txt
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ pycodestyle==2.6.0
 pycparser==2.20
 pyflakes==2.2.0
 Pygments==2.7.4
-PyJWT==1.7.1
+PyJWT==2.4.0
 pyparsing==2.4.7
 pyrsistent==0.16.0
 pytest==5.4.3