diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ef192c0f..1a51f787 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ pytz==2012c
 pyxdg==0.25
 pyzmq==14.0.1
 reportlab==3.0
-requests==2.2.1
+requests==2.20.0
 scikit-learn==0.15.2
 scipy==0.13.3
 sessioninstaller==0.0.0