diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix
index 44f49adbd3a6..baaa07d7e7ea 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, ncurses, readline, autoreconfHook }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ncurses, readline, autoreconfHook }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "1.7.0";
+  version = "1.7.1";
   pname = "hunspell";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
@@ -18,11 +18,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   patches = [
     ./0001-Make-hunspell-look-in-XDG_DATA_DIRS-for-dictionaries.patch
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "CVE-2019-16707.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/commit/ac938e2ecb48ab4dd21298126c7921689d60571b.patch";
-      sha256 = "0bwfksz87iy7ikx3fb54zd5ww169qfm9kl076hsch3cs8p30s8az";
-    })
   ];
 
   postPatch = ''