diff --git a/examples/cloud-composer-cicd/requirements.txt b/examples/cloud-composer-cicd/requirements.txt
index a168b6bc69..9175d87eb9 100644
--- a/examples/cloud-composer-cicd/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/cloud-composer-cicd/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # These are used by the docker image that validates the DAG syntax,
 # they are already included in Cloud Composer by default.
 # If you any other dependencies here, you must also ensure separately cloud composer has them.
-werkzeug==0.15.4 # needed for airflow 1.10.3
+werkzeug==2.2.3 # needed for airflow 1.10.3
 apache-airflow[gcp]==1.10.3