diff --git a/client/verta/verta/_internal_utils/_utils.py b/client/verta/verta/_internal_utils/_utils.py
index 4b69e2d01e..552b33fc50 100644
--- a/client/verta/verta/_internal_utils/_utils.py
+++ b/client/verta/verta/_internal_utils/_utils.py
@@ -1297,6 +1297,7 @@ def get_notebook_filepath():
             response = requests.get(
                 urljoin(server["url"], "api/sessions"),
                 params={"token": server.get("token", "")},
+                timeout=5,
             )
             if response.ok:
                 for session in body_to_json(response):