diff --git a/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt b/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt
index 6b6caec0f0..f46b604049 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==0.26b1
 protobuf==3.19.5
 requests==2.31.0
 six==1.16.0
-urllib3==1.26.7
+urllib3==1.26.17
 wrapt==1.13.3