diff --git a/link-verifier/action.yml b/link-verifier/action.yml
index 8136da6..ee91186 100644
--- a/link-verifier/action.yml
+++ b/link-verifier/action.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ runs:
   steps:
   - name: Setup Python for link verifier action
     uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+    with:
+      python-version: '3.7' # Minimum version for urllib v2 (https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/v2-migration-guide.html)
 
   - env:
       # The bash escape character is \033
diff --git a/link-verifier/requirements.txt b/link-verifier/requirements.txt
index 1e2102c..326141f 100644
--- a/link-verifier/requirements.txt
+++ b/link-verifier/requirements.txt
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ idna==2.10
 requests==2.31.0
 soupsieve==2.1
 termcolor==1.1.0
-urllib3
+urllib3>=2.0.7