diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c503a08..51e4075 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ pylint==1.3.0
 pytest==2.6.3
 pytest-cov==1.7.0
 tornado==4.3.0
-requests==2.4.1
+requests==2.20.0
 sphinx==1.2.3