diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fde87b4..a4cbd31 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ pysolr==3.7.0
 python-dateutil==2.6.1
 requests==2.18.4
 six==1.11.0
-urllib3==1.22
+urllib3==1.26.5
 watson-developer-cloud==1.0.2
 Werkzeug==0.14.1