diff --git a/buildscripts/requirements.txt b/buildscripts/requirements.txt
index 325d4ab89d4e4..682a69eb70747 100644
--- a/buildscripts/requirements.txt
+++ b/buildscripts/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ cryptography == 1.7.2
 jira == 1.0.10
 pyjwt == 1.5.3
 # Other
-pyyaml == 3.11
+pyyaml == 5.4
 unittest-xml-reporting == 2.1.0
 # Linters
 yapf == 0.21.0
diff --git a/buildscripts/resmokelib/requirements.txt b/buildscripts/resmokelib/requirements.txt
index 0f32c9d9b64b0..422e6ea55e68d 100644
--- a/buildscripts/resmokelib/requirements.txt
+++ b/buildscripts/resmokelib/requirements.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ mock == 2.0.0 ; python_version < "3"
 pymongo >= 3.0
 pypiwin32 == 219 ; sys_platform == "win32" and python_version < "3"
 pypiwin32 == 223 ; sys_platform == "win32" and python_version > "3"
-PyYAML == 3.11
+PyYAML == 5.4
 requests >= 2.0.0
 subprocess32 >= 3.2.7 ; os_name == "posix" and python_version < "3"