diff --git a/examples/vertical-fl/pyproject.toml b/examples/vertical-fl/pyproject.toml
index c917c4060b75..2c6b7070fd1d 100644
--- a/examples/vertical-fl/pyproject.toml
+++ b/examples/vertical-fl/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "flwr-datasets>=0.3.0",
     "pandas==2.0.3",
     "numpy>=1.26.0",
-    "scikit-learn==1.3.2",
+    "scikit-learn==1.5.0",
     "torch==2.5.1",
 ]