diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d816499..04c9f81 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ greenlet==0.4.5
 gunicorn==19.2.1
 itsdangerous==0.24
 newrelic==2.44.0.36
-requests==2.5.3
+requests==2.20.0
 -e git+https://github.com/jdunck/python-unicodecsv.git@c5d8ae68758dd48d8a776214080caa88bc036644#egg=unicodecsv-0.9.4
 wsgiref==0.1.2