diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
index 260687aa53..682814a6a1 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
@@ -421,7 +421,6 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-python3 = "\
     python3-ujson \
     python3-unidiff \
     python3-uritemplate \
-    python3-urllib3 \
     python3-vcversioner \
     python3-versiontools \
     python3-visitor \
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-urllib3_1.26.8.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-urllib3_1.26.8.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index c2a51b9148..0000000000
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-urllib3_1.26.8.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Python HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly, and more"
-HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/shazow/urllib3"
-LICENSE = "MIT"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=c2823cb995439c984fd62a973d79815c"
-
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0e7c33d9a63e7ddfcb86780aac87befc2fbddf46c58dbb487e0855f7ceec283c"
-
-inherit pypi setuptools3
-
-RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-certifi \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-cryptography \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-email \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-idna \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-netclient \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-pyopenssl \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-threading \
-"
-
-CVE_PRODUCT = "urllib3"
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"