diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index fcbc00e657..0531bb0548 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ protobuf==3.9.1
 psutil==5.7.0
 ptyprocess==0.6.0
 pycparser==2.20
-Pygments==2.6.1
+Pygments==2.7.4
 PyNaCl==1.3.0
 pyparsing==2.4.2
 PyPDF2==1.26.0