diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 4a4c338..5752fa3 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ psycopg2==2.6.1
 python-dateutil==2.4.2
 python-mimeparse==0.1.4
 python3-memcached==1.51
-requests==2.7.0
+requests==2.20.0
 six==1.9.0
 urllib3==1.10.4