diff --git a/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/test-requirements.txt b/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/test-requirements.txt
index 80ba5b937c..1dd9466773 100644
--- a/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/test-requirements.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ grpcio==1.63.2
 idna==3.7
 iniconfig==2.0.0
 kombu==5.3.5
-mysql-connector-python==8.3.0
+mysql-connector-python==9.1.0
 mysqlclient==2.1.1
 packaging==24.0
 paramiko==4.0.0