diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 532f6c7..2d2f114 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ psycopg2==2.6.2
 python-dateutil==2.6.0
 pytz==2016.10
 PyYAML==3.12
-requests==2.12.4
+requests==2.20.0
 scipy==1.0.1
 six==1.10.0
 tornado==4.4.2