diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1f9cd026a..64485fd64 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 py==1.4.29
 pytest==3.0.2
-requests==2.7.0
+requests==2.21.0
 six==1.9.0
 wheel==0.24.0