diff --git a/services/search-mediator/requirements.txt b/services/search-mediator/requirements.txt
index f68f023..0e7698e 100644
--- a/services/search-mediator/requirements.txt
+++ b/services/search-mediator/requirements.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ requests==2.33.1
 urllib3==2.7.0
 pyyaml==6.0.3
 gunicorn==25.3.0
-pip==26.1.2
+pip==26.2
 setuptools==83.0.0
 wheel==0.46.2