diff --git a/back-end/requirements.txt b/back-end/requirements.txt
index 8357e81..f7182e9 100644
--- a/back-end/requirements.txt
+++ b/back-end/requirements.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Jinja2==2.10
 Mako==1.0.7
 MarkupSafe==1.0
 Pygments==2.2.0
-PyJWT==1.6.4
+PyJWT==2.4.0
 python-dateutil==2.7.5
 python-dotenv==0.9.1
 python-editor==1.0.3