diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index af18b094..bfa00d76 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ psycopg2-binary==2.9.3
 pyparsing==2.4.7
 requests==2.27.1
 six==1.16.0
-tornado==6.1
+tornado==6.5
 urllib3==1.26.8