diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-lambda-python/test/lambda-handler-project/shared/requirements.txt b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-lambda-python/test/lambda-handler-project/shared/requirements.txt
index 10fdedeb59ab2..149a1792d9cdb 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-lambda-python/test/lambda-handler-project/shared/requirements.txt
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-lambda-python/test/lambda-handler-project/shared/requirements.txt
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ urllib3==1.25.11
 # Requests used by this lambda
 requests==2.23.0
 # Pillow 6.x so that python 2.7 and 3.x can both use this fixture
-pillow==6.2.2
+pillow==8.3.2