diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8e3e94383..8dc5d8264 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def convert_markdown_to_rst(file):
     install_requires=[
         "certifi",  # we want the latest root certs for security
         "requests==2.25.0",
-        "chardet==3.0.4",
+        "chardet==5.1.0",
         "idna==2.10",
         "Jinja2==2.11.2",
         "MarkupSafe==1.1.1",