diff --git a/automation/requirements.txt b/automation/requirements.txt
index 97ea204..d0b6510 100644
--- a/automation/requirements.txt
+++ b/automation/requirements.txt
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ prompt-toolkit==2.0.6
 ptyprocess==0.6.0
 pyasn1==0.4.4
 pyasn1-modules==0.2.2
-pycares==2.3.0
+pycares==4.2.0
 pycodestyle==2.3.1
 pyflakes==1.5.0
 Pygments==2.2.0