diff --git a/mongo/buildscripts/requirements.txt b/mongo/buildscripts/requirements.txt
index 83242c05..e2c68508 100644
--- a/mongo/buildscripts/requirements.txt
+++ b/mongo/buildscripts/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 jira == 1.0.10
-pyyaml == 3.11
+pyyaml == 5.4
 unittest-xml-reporting == 2.1.0
 # Linters
 yapf == 0.16.0
diff --git a/mongo/buildscripts/resmokelib/requirements.txt b/mongo/buildscripts/resmokelib/requirements.txt
index d0770bc1..d95740d2 100644
--- a/mongo/buildscripts/resmokelib/requirements.txt
+++ b/mongo/buildscripts/resmokelib/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 pymongo >= 3.0
 pypiwin32 == 219 ; sys_platform == "win32"
-PyYAML == 3.11
+PyYAML == 5.4
 requests >= 2.0.0
 subprocess32 >= 3.2.7 ; os_name == "posix" and python_version < "3"