diff --git a/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt b/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt
index 7378b7425a..6b6caec0f0 100644
--- a/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt
+++ b/release/smoke-tests/otel-span-exporter/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ certifi==2023.7.22
 charset-normalizer==2.0.9
 Deprecated==1.2.13
 googleapis-common-protos==1.53.0
-grpcio==1.50.0
+grpcio==1.53.0
 idna==3.3
 opentelemetry-api==1.7.1
 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp==1.7.1