diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5f8b1ca10..b3b69df1d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pygments==2.1.3
 pylint==1.5.4
 pyOpenSSL==16.2.0
 pyyaml==3.11
-requests==2.9.1
+requests==2.20.0
 setuptools==30.4.0
 six==1.10.0
 tabulate==0.7.5