diff --git a/lower-constraints.txt b/lower-constraints.txt
index 80bb89137..d4491d05f 100644
--- a/lower-constraints.txt
+++ b/lower-constraints.txt
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ oslo.utils==3.33.0
 oslo.versionedobjects==1.33.3
 oslotest==3.2.0
 packaging==17.1
-paramiko==2.0.0
+paramiko==2.7.1
 Paste==2.0.2
 PasteDeploy==1.5.0
 pbr==2.0.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d9a6257cf..1cb0d74a4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ rfc3986>=1.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 tosca-parser>=1.6.0 # Apache-2.0
 heat-translator>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 cryptography>=2.7 # BSD/Apache-2.0
-paramiko>=2.0.0 # LGPLv2.1+
+paramiko>=2.7.1 # LGPLv2.1+
 pyroute2>=0.4.21;sys_platform!='win32' # Apache-2.0 (+ dual licensed GPL2)
 python-mistralclient!=3.2.0,>=3.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 python-barbicanclient>=4.5.2 # Apache-2.0