diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2b0e7c12f..9f072d910 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ paramiko==1.12.3
 psycopg2==2.5.2
 pycrypto==2.6.1
 python-memcached==1.53
-requests==1.2.0
+requests==2.20.0
 unicodecsv==0.9.4
 whitenoise==1.0.6
 wsgiref==0.1.2