diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 489175a6..ac97fabb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ python-dateutil==2.4.2
 pytz==2015.7
 redis==2.10.5
 reportlab==3.2.0
-requests==2.9.0
+requests==2.20.0
 six==1.10.0
 git+git://github.com/ddehghan/libsvg.git@e2556361f86cbc5c547a30de080d8cd07ecec574#egg=libsvg
 xlrd==0.9.4