diff --git a/models/language_modeling/tensorflow/bert_large/inference/requirements.txt b/models/language_modeling/tensorflow/bert_large/inference/requirements.txt
index 61055290a..97f2cc0bf 100644
--- a/models/language_modeling/tensorflow/bert_large/inference/requirements.txt
+++ b/models/language_modeling/tensorflow/bert_large/inference/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 intel-tensorflow>=2.5.0
-wheel==0.38.0 # upgraded to avoid a vulnerability
+wheel==0.38.1 # upgraded to avoid a vulnerability