diff --git a/python/requirements.txt b/python/requirements.txt
index 5d2a7593f..cf0fbb727 100644
--- a/python/requirements.txt
+++ b/python/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-requests==2.20.0
+requests==2.31.0
 numpy>=1.12
 protobuf==3.1
 recordio>=0.1.0