diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 25203bfcc4..75e9a47519 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
     "uuid": "3.0.1",
     "v8-compile-cache": "1.1.0",
     "vscode-jsonrpc": "3.2.0",
-    "ws": "2.0.3",
+    "ws": "8.17.1",
     "xml2js": "0.4.17",
     "xterm": "2.5.0",
     "yargs": "3.32.0"