diff --git a/CHANGES/6708.misc b/CHANGES/6708.misc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..69fcadf6b45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/6708.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Replace deprecated cgi module usage with email.parser.
diff --git a/aiohttp/helpers.py b/aiohttp/helpers.py
index 999c562a614..8e2502ac53b 100644
--- a/aiohttp/helpers.py
+++ b/aiohttp/helpers.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 import asyncio
 import base64
 import binascii
-import cgi
 import dataclasses
 import datetime
 import enum
@@ -19,6 +18,7 @@
 import weakref
 from collections import namedtuple
 from contextlib import suppress
+from email.parser import HeaderParser
 from email.utils import parsedate
 from http.cookies import SimpleCookie
 from math import ceil
@@ -748,7 +748,10 @@ def _parse_content_type(self, raw: str) -> None:
             self._content_type = "application/octet-stream"
             self._content_dict = {}
         else:
-            self._content_type, self._content_dict = cgi.parse_header(raw)
+            msg = HeaderParser().parsestr("Content-Type: " + raw)
+            self._content_type = msg.get_content_type()
+            params = msg.get_params()
+            self._content_dict = dict(params[1:])  # First element is content type again
 
     @property
     def content_type(self) -> str: