diff --git a/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt b/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt
index 34fe2372ed..25f52a0c43 100644
--- a/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt
+++ b/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ opentelemetry-semantic-conventions==0.46b0
 protobuf==4.25.8
 requests==2.32.3
 six==1.16.0
-urllib3==1.26.19
+urllib3==2.5.0
 wrapt==1.13.3