diff --git a/requirements/common.in b/requirements/common.in
index 0592d48234e..205570859bf 100644
--- a/requirements/common.in
+++ b/requirements/common.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Packages that are shared between deployment and dev environments.
 gunicorn==23.0.0
-whitenoise[brotli]==6.7.0  # Used by Whitenoise to provide Brotli-compressed versions of static files.
+whitenoise[brotli]==6.8.1  # Used by Whitenoise to provide Brotli-compressed versions of static files.
 Django==5.1.2
 celery==5.4.0  # celery needed for data ingestion
 cached-property==2.0.1 # needed for kombu with --require-hashes
diff --git a/requirements/common.txt b/requirements/common.txt
index 45a1b411178..24e56dc3b28 100644
--- a/requirements/common.txt
+++ b/requirements/common.txt
@@ -1573,9 +1573,9 @@ wcwidth==0.2.13 \
     # via
     #   blessed
     #   prompt-toolkit
-whitenoise[brotli]==6.7.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:58c7a6cd811e275a6c91af22e96e87da0b1109e9a53bb7464116ef4c963bf636 \
-    --hash=sha256:a1ae85e01fdc9815d12fa33f17765bc132ed2c54fa76daf9e39e879dd93566f6
+whitenoise[brotli]==6.8.1 \
+    --hash=sha256:11042f39f1dcfbb3814726b9364703af6901706582d988e96494cfefdc3a89e2 \
+    --hash=sha256:196ba04ca0a80f4a3f99f88381864f218a28b5fb5b44d29feea484d501fa0ba3
     # via -r requirements/common.in
 yarl==1.9.4 \
     --hash=sha256:008d3e808d03ef28542372d01057fd09168419cdc8f848efe2804f894ae03e51 \