diff --git a/requirements/requirements.in b/requirements/requirements.in
index f77f46f837..e9b7ebf1b4 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements/requirements.in
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ requests
 slack-sdk
 twilio
 twisted[tls]>=24.7.0  # CVE-2024-41810
-urllib3<2.4.0, >=1.26.19 # CVE-2024-37891. capped by kubernetes 34.1.0 reqs
+urllib3>=2.6.3 # CVE-2024-37891. capped by kubernetes 34.1.0 reqs
 uWSGI>=2.0.28
 uwsgitop
 wheel>=0.38.1  # CVE-2022-40898
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index 3775706182..aba9f8492b 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -253,8 +253,10 @@ jsonschema==4.25.1
     #   drf-spectacular
 jsonschema-specifications==2025.9.1
     # via jsonschema
-kubernetes==34.1.0
-    # via openshift
+# kubernetes @ git+https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python.git@df31d90d6c910d6b5c883b98011c93421cac067d  # git requirements installed separately
+    # via
+    #   -r /awx_devel/requirements/requirements_git.txt
+    #   openshift
 lockfile==0.12.2
     # via python-daemon
 markdown==3.9
@@ -524,7 +526,7 @@ typing-extensions==4.15.0
     #   twisted
 uritemplate==4.2.0
     # via drf-spectacular
-urllib3==2.3.0
+urllib3==2.6.3
     # via
     #   -r /awx_devel/requirements/requirements.in
     #   botocore
diff --git a/requirements/requirements_git.txt b/requirements/requirements_git.txt
index 196760847a..358943fac8 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements_git.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements_git.txt
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ ansible-runner @ git+https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner.git@devel
 awx-plugins-core[credentials-github-app] @ git+https://github.com/ansible/awx-plugins.git@devel
 django-ansible-base[feature-flags,jwt-consumer,rbac,resource-registry,rest-filters] @ git+https://github.com/ansible/django-ansible-base@devel
 awx-plugins-interfaces @ git+https://github.com/ansible/awx_plugins.interfaces.git
+kubernetes @ git+https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python.git@df31d90d6c910d6b5c883b98011c93421cac067d