diff --git a/ai/generative-ai-service/document-processing-with-genai/generic-document-evaluation/files/backend/requirements.txt b/ai/generative-ai-service/document-processing-with-genai/generic-document-evaluation/files/backend/requirements.txt
index 13b6c6175..edf90ba09 100644
--- a/ai/generative-ai-service/document-processing-with-genai/generic-document-evaluation/files/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/ai/generative-ai-service/document-processing-with-genai/generic-document-evaluation/files/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pdfplumber==0.11.6
 Pillow==11.3.0
 PyPDF2==3.0.1
 pytesseract==0.3.13
-python-dotenv==1.1.1
+python-dotenv==1.2.2
 streamlit==1.45.0
 qdrant-client==1.13.3