diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 6708e571fd..32a1cb29ff 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ sentencepiece
 soundfile==0.13.1
 azure-ai-documentintelligence==1.0.2
 
-pillow==11.3.0
+pillow==12.0.0
 opencv-python-headless==4.11.0.86
 rapidocr-onnxruntime==1.4.4
 rank-bm25==0.2.2