diff --git a/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/requirements.txt b/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/requirements.txt
index a256a3a048372..4517fc8597f16 100644
--- a/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/requirements.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ pyopenssl==17.5.0
 pytest==3.3.2
 pytest-cov==2.5.1
 pytz==2017.3
-requests==2.18.4
+requests==2.20.0
 Routes==2.4.1
 singledispatch==3.4.0.3
 six==1.11.0