diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 999345b5..e6c5b80a 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ alembic==1.13.1
 pypdf2==3.0.1
 pdfplumber==0.10.3
 python-pptx==0.6.23
-pillow==10.1.0
+pillow==12.3.0
 pytesseract==0.3.10
 tiktoken==0.5.2