diff --git a/workshop/cisco-ai-pods/load-embeddings/requirements.txt b/workshop/cisco-ai-pods/load-embeddings/requirements.txt
index dd41d873bf..e3a5b6ce19 100644
--- a/workshop/cisco-ai-pods/load-embeddings/requirements.txt
+++ b/workshop/cisco-ai-pods/load-embeddings/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-pypdf==6.10.2
+pypdf==6.13.0
 langchain_community==0.3.27
 langchain-nvidia-ai-endpoints==0.3.7
 langchain-weaviate==0.0.5