diff --git a/containers/fhir-converter/requirements.txt b/containers/fhir-converter/requirements.txt
index 5180ece5ab..8f42d1a69e 100644
--- a/containers/fhir-converter/requirements.txt
+++ b/containers/fhir-converter/requirements.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ PyYAML==6.0.1
 requests==2.32.2
 six==1.16.0
 sniffio==1.2.0
-starlette==0.36.3
+starlette==0.40.0
 syrupy==4.6.1
 testcontainers[compose]==4.8.1
 tomli==2.0.1