diff --git a/base_requirements.txt b/base_requirements.txt
index 66558b53c4..7b8bb410e1 100644
--- a/base_requirements.txt
+++ b/base_requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ops>=2.8
 pylxd @ git+https://github.com/canonical/pylxd
 requests
 typing-extensions
-cryptography==45.0.7
+cryptography==46.0.3
 pydantic ==1.10.24
 cosl ==1.4.0
 PyYAML ==6.0.*