diff --git a/components/gitpod-protocol/package.json b/components/gitpod-protocol/package.json
index d994e8391e0f66..1e6227e643cb85 100644
--- a/components/gitpod-protocol/package.json
+++ b/components/gitpod-protocol/package.json
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
         "google-protobuf": "^3.19.1",
         "inversify": "^6.0.1",
         "jaeger-client": "^3.18.1",
-        "js-yaml": "^3.10.0",
+        "js-yaml": "^4.1.1",
         "nice-grpc-common": "^2.0.0",
         "opentracing": "^0.14.5",
         "parse-duration": "^1.0.3",