diff --git a/notebooks/example/requirements.txt b/notebooks/example/requirements.txt
index 976a2b1f39..f3b061e6c8 100644
--- a/notebooks/example/requirements.txt
+++ b/notebooks/example/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 transformers
+sentencepiece>=0.2.1 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability