diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2308cb0b0..c559d8fab 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ beautifulsoup4==4.1.3
 python-twitter==0.8.7
 msgpack-python==0.3.0
 pyparsing==1.5.6
-requests==2.2.0
+requests==2.20.0
 PyPDF2==1.19
 rauth==0.6.2
 unidecode==0.04.14