diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d8d8549f..efebfe1a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
     "debug": "^4.3.4",
     "eventemitter3": "^5.0.0",
     "fast-xml-parser": "^4.4.1",
-    "file-type": "^16.5.4",
+    "file-type": "^20.4.1",
     "follow-redirects": "^1.15.2",
     "isutf8": "^4.0.0",
     "jsonschema": "^1.4.1",
diff --git a/src/lib/utils/index.ts b/src/lib/utils/index.ts
index 939fc913..7e85dce9 100644
--- a/src/lib/utils/index.ts
+++ b/src/lib/utils/index.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 import { Session } from '../client';
 import { Hosts } from './../../config';
 import { ExtensionsMap } from './extensions';
-import { fromBuffer } from 'file-type';
+import * as FileType from 'file-type';
 import isutf8 from 'isutf8';
 
 /**
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ export const getMimetype = async(file: Uint8Array | Buffer, name?: string): Prom
   let type;
 
   try {
-    type = await fromBuffer(file);
+    type = await FileType.fileTypeFromBuffer(file);
   } catch(e) {
     console.warn("An exception occurred while processing the buffer:", e.message);
   }