diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 56c8a6010..a9ca80c21 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ repos:
           - types-requests==2.31.0.1
           - types-tabulate==0.9.0.2
           - types-python-dateutil==2.8.19.13
-          - SQLAlchemy==2.0.17
+          - SQLAlchemy==2.0.18
         # stages: [push]
 
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 839714bb7..9316e54e6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ ccxt==4.0.17
 cryptography==41.0.1; platform_machine != 'armv7l'
 cryptography==40.0.1; platform_machine == 'armv7l'
 aiohttp==3.8.4
-SQLAlchemy==2.0.17
+SQLAlchemy==2.0.18
 python-telegram-bot==20.4
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1