diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 61066a1..ff70522 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ pytz==2016.7
 PyYAML==3.12                                                                                                
 pyzmq==16.0.0                                                                                               
 qtconsole==4.2.1                                                                                            
-requests==2.2.1                                                                                             
+requests==2.20.0                                                                                             
 scikit-image==0.12.3                                                                                        
 scikit-learn==0.18.1                                                                                        
 scipy==0.18.1