diff --git a/fedml_experiments/distributed/requirements.txt b/fedml_experiments/distributed/requirements.txt
index 4064527..fdec6cd 100644
--- a/fedml_experiments/distributed/requirements.txt
+++ b/fedml_experiments/distributed/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-certifi==2023.7.22
+certifi==2024.7.4
 chardet==3.0.4
 et-xmlfile==1.0.1
 idna==2.10