diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b22eb80..bc99ba1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ pytz==2012rc0
 pyxdg==0.25
 pyzmq==14.0.1
 reportlab==3.0
-requests==2.2.1
+requests==2.20.0
 scipy==0.13.3
 SecretStorage==2.0.0
 sessioninstaller==0.0.0