diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9b34c2226..d770ebc61 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ pyparsing<3.0.0
 zipp<2.0.0
 pywinrm==0.2.2
 requests==2.24.0
-paramiko~=2.11.0
+paramiko @ git+https://github.com/michael-redpanda/paramiko@44d959a81355ac81975041411d1bbc91803cf2ff
 pyzmq==19.0.2
 pycryptodome==3.9.8
 # > 5.0 drops py27 support