diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 5e0723316..6e0aa2bb0 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ deps =
     Werkzeug==0.11.3
     wheel==0.28.0
     xvfbwrapper==0.2.8
-    cherrypy==4.0.0
+    cherrypy==5.0.1
 commands =
     {envpython} scripts/link_pyqt.py --tox {envdir}
     {envpython} -m py.test {posargs:tests}