diff --git a/requirements-devel.txt b/requirements-devel.txt
index 6e94c1f36ef..6ac157d6ee0 100644
--- a/requirements-devel.txt
+++ b/requirements-devel.txt
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ sphinxcontrib-jsmath==1.0.1
 sphinxcontrib-qthelp==2.0.0
 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==2.0.0
 sphinxext-opengraph==0.9.1
-starlette==0.38.5
+starlette==0.40.0
 tabulate==0.9.0
 testscenarios==0.5.0
 testtools==2.7.2
diff --git a/requirements-docs.txt b/requirements-docs.txt
index 5764025e75b..a91631c1687 100644
--- a/requirements-docs.txt
+++ b/requirements-docs.txt
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ sphinxcontrib-jsmath==1.0.1
 sphinxcontrib-qthelp==2.0.0
 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==2.0.0
 sphinxext-opengraph==0.9.1
-starlette==0.38.5
+starlette==0.40.0
 tabulate==0.9.0
 tinydb==4.8.0
 toml==0.10.2