diff --git a/compute/metadata/requirements.txt b/compute/metadata/requirements.txt
index da3fa4c34e3..86ad1dcf3a0 100644
--- a/compute/metadata/requirements.txt
+++ b/compute/metadata/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 requests==2.21.0
+urllib3>=2.6.0 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability