diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1659441f2c..279ccbade0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -51,4 +51,5 @@ pyyaml==6.0.1
 timm==1.0.7
 torchmetrics==1.4.0
 pycocotools==2.0.7
-sentence-transformers==3.0.1
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+sentence-transformers==3.0.1
+torch>=2.8.0 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability
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