diff --git a/common/dependabot-common.gemspec b/common/dependabot-common.gemspec
index 33c680bc6f2..44c5ee80d5d 100644
--- a/common/dependabot-common.gemspec
+++ b/common/dependabot-common.gemspec
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.add_dependency "excon", "~> 0.75"
   spec.add_dependency "gitlab", "4.16.1"
   spec.add_dependency "nokogiri", "~> 1.8"
-  spec.add_dependency "octokit", "~> 4.6"
+  spec.add_dependency "octokit", ">= 4.6", "< 6.0"
   spec.add_dependency "pandoc-ruby", "~> 2.0"
   spec.add_dependency "parseconfig", "~> 1.0"
   spec.add_dependency "parser", "~> 2.5"