diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/package.json b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
index 17a1c2fe59a..cb5ead95ea9 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     "style-loader": "0.13.1",
     "url-loader": "0.5.7",
     "webpack": "2.2.1",
-    "webpack-dev-server": "2.4.1",
+    "webpack-dev-server": "5.2.0",
     "webpack-manifest-plugin": "1.1.0",
     "whatwg-fetch": "2.0.2"
   },