diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9492b33..43e965a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pika==0.10.0
 simplejson==3.3.1
 pymongo==2.8.1
 configparser==3.5.0b2
-requests==2.7.0
+requests==2.20.0
 python-dateutil==1.5
 hashlib==20081119
 termcolor==1.1.0