diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/backend/poetry.lock b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/backend/poetry.lock
index 23bf770c..7b910d75 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/backend/poetry.lock
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/backend/poetry.lock
@@ -879,23 +879,24 @@ test = ["objgraph", "psutil"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "gunicorn"
-version = "21.2.0"
+version = "23.0.0"
 description = "WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.5"
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
 groups = ["main"]
 files = [
-    {file = "gunicorn-21.2.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:3213aa5e8c24949e792bcacfc176fef362e7aac80b76c56f6b5122bf350722f0"},
-    {file = "gunicorn-21.2.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:88ec8bff1d634f98e61b9f65bc4bf3cd918a90806c6f5c48bc5603849ec81033"},
+    {file = "gunicorn-23.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:ec400d38950de4dfd418cff8328b2c8faed0edb0d517d3394e457c317908ca4d"},
+    {file = "gunicorn-23.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:f014447a0101dc57e294f6c18ca6b40227a4c90e9bdb586042628030cba004ec"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
 packaging = "*"
 
 [package.extras]
-eventlet = ["eventlet (>=0.24.1)"]
+eventlet = ["eventlet (>=0.24.1,!=0.36.0)"]
 gevent = ["gevent (>=1.4.0)"]
 setproctitle = ["setproctitle"]
+testing = ["coverage", "eventlet", "gevent", "pytest", "pytest-cov"]
 tornado = ["tornado (>=0.2)"]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1947,4 +1948,4 @@ files = [
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.1"
 python-versions = "^3.13"
-content-hash = "784fc8e3eac804a6a3698135a3d0199e24b23ae9c059df0a4d22e366a3f83344"
+content-hash = "594f3ced59ce240ff071650c54484060d8624fb53488f7c97889117d071de9ab"
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/backend/pyproject.toml b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/backend/pyproject.toml
index 5ccf5e73..d0e329a6 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ alembic = "^1.15.1"
 psycopg2-binary = "^2.9.10"
 asyncpg = "^0.30.0"
 SQLAlchemy = "^2.0.39"
-gunicorn = "^21.2.0"
+gunicorn = "^23.0.0"
 fastapi-users = { extras = ["sqlalchemy"], version = "^14.0.1" }
 email-validator = "^2.2.0"
 pydantic-settings = "^2.8.1"