diff --git a/embedding/requirements.txt b/embedding/requirements.txt
index 178253b..b9926d1 100644
--- a/embedding/requirements.txt
+++ b/embedding/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ fastapi==0.109.1
 joblib==1.2.0
 nltk==3.8.1
 numpy==1.20 # needs to be 1.20 because after that, np.int does not exist any more, which breaks nltk
-pymongo==4.3.3
+pymongo==4.6.3
 requests==2.31.0
 scikit-learn==0.22 # needs to be 0.22 because after that, sklearn.utils.linear_assignment_ is removed, which breaks allennlp
 scipy==1.10.0