diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 58be89d..e9d40a0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ molecule-plugins[podman]
 # Shadow the runner image's apt pyOpenSSL (23.2), which cannot load
 # against a pip installed cryptography and breaks molecule start-up
 # through the ec2 driver's boto3 import (AttributeError: lib.GEN_EMAIL).
-pyopenssl>=24.0
+pyopenssl>=26.4.0