diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index 8555d6535e..f148b27c1b 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 * Node has been upgraded to version 8.9.2.
 
+* The `npm` package has ben upgraded to version 5.5.1.
+
 ## v1.6, 2017-10-30
 
 * Node.js has been upgraded to version 8.8.1, which will be entering
diff --git a/scripts/build-dev-bundle-common.sh b/scripts/build-dev-bundle-common.sh
index 0819163ef3..e8623ece18 100644
--- a/scripts/build-dev-bundle-common.sh
+++ b/scripts/build-dev-bundle-common.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ARCH=$(uname -m)
 NODE_VERSION=8.9.2
 MONGO_VERSION_64BIT=3.2.15
 MONGO_VERSION_32BIT=3.2.15
-NPM_VERSION=5.4.2
+NPM_VERSION=5.5.1
 
 # If we built Node from source on Jenkins, this is the build number.
 NODE_BUILD_NUMBER=111
diff --git a/scripts/dev-bundle-tool-package.js b/scripts/dev-bundle-tool-package.js
index fdde521a2d..21f68a38cf 100644
--- a/scripts/dev-bundle-tool-package.js
+++ b/scripts/dev-bundle-tool-package.js
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ var packageJson = {
   dependencies: {
     // Explicit dependency because we are replacing it with a bundled version
     // and we want to make sure there are no dependencies on a higher version
-    npm: "5.4.2",
+    npm: "5.5.1",
     pacote: "https://github.com/meteor/pacote/tarball/4e58fa55e2a0ba7dc75b26ff5273730d98335a85",
     "node-gyp": "3.6.2",
     "node-pre-gyp": "0.6.36",