diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/package.json b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
index 38a6f86dbd6..c238a57d5d5 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/package.json
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
     "strip-ansi": "3.0.1",
     "style-loader": "0.13.1",
     "url-loader": "0.5.7",
-    "webpack": "1.14.0",
+    "webpack": "2.2.0",
     "webpack-dev-server": "1.16.2",
     "webpack-manifest-plugin": "1.1.0",
     "whatwg-fetch": "1.0.0"