diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 012c024..9863f77 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ pytest==3.4.0
 python-dateutil==2.5.0
 pytz==2015.7
 redis==2.10.5
-requests==2.13.0
+requests==2.20.0
 Rtree==0.8.3
 scikit-image==0.11.3
 scipy==0.17.0