diff --git a/.trivy/pgedge-postgres.trivyignore.yaml b/.trivy/pgedge-postgres.trivyignore.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc15223
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.trivy/pgedge-postgres.trivyignore.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Usage:
+#   trivy image --ignorefile .trivy/pgedge-postgres.trivyignore.yaml <pgedge-postgres image ref>
+#
+# Example entry:
+# vulnerabilities:
+#   - id: CVE-XXXX-YYYY
+#     statement: "Justification for accepting this risk"
+
+# No accepted-risk suppressions: all current findings are remediated in the Dockerfile.
+vulnerabilities: []
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index b440bf0..0293c4f 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ set -o pipefail
 set -o nounset
 
 xargs dnf install -y < /usr/share/pgedge/packages.txt
+# Patch any OS packages (including transitive dependencies pulled in above)
+# to the latest available errata so the image ships with security fixes.
+dnf update -y
 dnf clean all
 
 EOF
@@ -110,9 +113,19 @@ set -o pipefail
 set -o nounset
 
 xargs dnf install -y < /usr/share/pgedge/packages.txt
-dnf install -y 'python3-pip-21.3.1-*'
-pip install 'patroni[etcd,jsonlogger]==4.1.3'
-dnf remove -y python3-pip
+# Patch any OS packages (including transitive dependencies pulled in above)
+# to the latest available errata so the image ships with security fixes.
+dnf update -y
+# Patroni's HTTP client dependencies only ship security fixes for Python >= 3.10
+# (urllib3 >= 2.7.0, requests >= 2.33.0), while the system python3 is 3.9. Install
+# patroni under python3.12 so it can pull the patched urllib3/requests, resolving
+# CVE-2026-44431 and CVE-2026-44432 (urllib3) and CVE-2026-25645 (requests). The
+# floors are pinned explicitly (patroni does not constrain them) so the build
+# fails loudly if a fixed version is ever unavailable. The psycopg3 extra bundles
+# libpq, so patroni no longer relies on the Python 3.9-only system psycopg2.
+dnf install -y python3.12 python3.12-pip
+python3.12 -m pip install 'patroni[etcd,jsonlogger,psycopg3]==4.1.3' 'urllib3>=2.7.0' 'requests>=2.33.0'
+dnf remove -y python3.12-pip
 dnf clean all
 
 EOF