diff --git a/.circleci/utils/test_sort_yaml.py b/.circleci/utils/test_sort_yaml.py
index dc6db481dd..44ed29af6d 100755
--- a/.circleci/utils/test_sort_yaml.py
+++ b/.circleci/utils/test_sort_yaml.py
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@
 import sys
 import yaml
 
-sys.stdout.write(yaml.dump(yaml.load(sys.stdin, Loader=yaml.FullLoader), sort_keys=True))
+sys.stdout.write(yaml.dump(yaml.safe_load(sys.stdin, Loader=yaml.FullLoader), sort_keys=True))