diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c8e49411..cd4f88c9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ RECEPTOR_IMAGE ?= quay.io/ansible/receptor:devel
 SRC_ONLY_PKGS ?= cffi,pycparser,psycopg,twilio
 # These should be upgraded in the AWX and Ansible venv before attempting
 # to install the actual requirements
-VENV_BOOTSTRAP ?= pip==26.2.1 setuptools==83.0.0 setuptools_scm[toml]==9.2.2 wheel==0.46.2
+VENV_BOOTSTRAP ?= pip==26.2.1 setuptools==83.0.0 setuptools_scm[toml]==9.2.2 wheel==0.48.0
 
 NAME ?= awx
 
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index 7108c3e9..e82a5c46 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ valkey[libvalkey]==6.1.1
     #   django-valkey
 websocket-client==1.7.0
     # via kubernetes
-wheel==0.46.3
+wheel==0.48.0
     # via -r /awx_devel/requirements/requirements.in
 xmlsec==1.3.17
     # via python3-saml