diff --git a/backend/pyproject.toml b/backend/pyproject.toml
index ec6be79..f77f5e9 100644
--- a/backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "paho-mqtt>=1.6.0,<2.0.0",
     "PyNaCl>=1.5.0",
     "slowapi==0.1.9",
-    "starlette==1.0.1",
+    "starlette==1.4.1",
     "vaderSentiment>=3.3.0",
     "uvicorn==0.34.0",
     "yfinance==1.3.0",