diff --git a/backend/requirements/default.txt b/backend/requirements/default.txt
index aa943bff8cc..c3ab418bea9 100644
--- a/backend/requirements/default.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements/default.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ langgraph-sdk==0.1.44
 litellm==1.69.0
 lxml==5.3.0
 lxml_html_clean==0.2.2
-llama-index==0.12.28
+llama-index==0.12.41
 Mako==1.2.4
 msal==1.28.0
 nltk==3.9.1