diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d92bfe4..0d190aa 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ pyparsing==2.1.10
 python-dateutil==2.6.0
 pytz==2016.10
 reportlab==3.3.0
-requests==2.12.3
+requests==2.20.0
 scipy>=0.18.1
 six==1.10.0
 snowballstemmer==1.2.1