diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a9df722..b7473ba 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ pycparser==2.18
 pycryptodome==3.5.1
 pyethash==0.1.27
 Pygments==2.2.0
-requests==2.18.4
+requests==2.20.0
 rlp==0.6.0
 semantic-version==2.6.0
 simplegeneric==0.8.1