diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 85a9df78e7..aac32a67cd 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ requests
 archspec
 
 # cryptography 3.4.0 no longer supports Python 2.7
-cryptography==3.3.2; python_version == '2.7'
+cryptography==41.0.0; python_version == '2.7'
 cryptography; python_version >= '3.5' and python_version < '3.11'
 
 # rich is only supported for Python 3.6+