diff --git a/backend/pyproject.toml b/backend/pyproject.toml
index 3d8df373c6..93cd39fb17 100644
--- a/backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ dependencies = [
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     "sentry-sdk>=2.14.0",
-    "boto3==1.43.9",
+    "boto3==1.43.34",
     "pycountry<20.0,>=19.8",
     "countries<1.0.0,>=0.2.0",
     "django-ses==4.1.1",
diff --git a/backend/uv.lock b/backend/uv.lock
index 4b00a0ec09..0ce7f63ffb 100644
--- a/backend/uv.lock
+++ b/backend/uv.lock
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