diff --git a/packages/lang/Python3/package.mk b/packages/lang/Python3/package.mk
index 0d561f8187..c2054af59d 100644
--- a/packages/lang/Python3/package.mk
+++ b/packages/lang/Python3/package.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="8fb5f9fbc7609fa822cb31549884575db7fd9657cbffb89510b5d7975963a83a"
 PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="https://www.python.org/"
 PKG_URL="https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PKG_VERSION}/${PKG_NAME::-1}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="zlib:host bzip2:host libffi:host util-linux:host xz:host autoconf-archive:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="zlib:host bzip2:host libffi:host util-linux:host xz:host autoconf-archive:host openssl:host"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain Python3:host sqlite expat zlib bzip2 xz openssl libffi readline ncurses util-linux"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Python3 is an interpreted object-oriented programming language."
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="autotools"