diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a7b6b79ae33..e5889c19869 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ test = [
 ci = [
     "feast[test, aws, azure, cassandra, clickhouse, couchbase, delta, docling, duckdb, elasticsearch, faiss, gcp, ge, go, grpcio, hazelcast, hbase, ibis, image, k8s, mcp, milvus, mongodb, mssql, mysql, openlineage, opentelemetry, oracle, spark, trino, postgres, pytorch, qdrant, rag, ray, redis, singlestore, snowflake, sqlite_vec]",
     "build",
-    "virtualenv==20.23.0",
+    "virtualenv==20.36.1",
     "dbt-artifacts-parser",
     "ruff>=0.8.0",
     "mypy-protobuf>=3.1",