diff --git a/src/nodemgr/requirements.txt b/src/nodemgr/requirements.txt
index 03f87e11..2e3f3a3e 100644
--- a/src/nodemgr/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/nodemgr/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ pyYAML
 psutil>=0.6.0,!=5.5.0,!=5.5.1
 sandesh==0.1dev
 sandesh-common
-grpcio==1.29.0
+grpcio==1.53.0
 protobuf==3.17.3
 docker<3.0.0
 containerd==1.5.2