diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index adb03e2..e2f46c4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ nose==1.3.7
 packaging==16.8
 pbr==3.1.1
 pyparsing==2.2.0
-requests==2.13.0
+requests==2.20.0
 responses==0.5.1
 six==1.10.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6dcce7a..d028eaa 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@
     author_email="harry.lewis@queensu.ca",
     url="https://github.com/harrylewis/python-uinames",
     keywords=["testing", "mock", "data", "users"],
-    install_requires=["requests==2.13.0", "responses==0.5.1", "nose==1.3.7"]
+    install_requires=["requests==2.20.0", "responses==0.5.1", "nose==1.3.7"]
 )