diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index b34b674a..707116ad 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ psycopg2==2.6.1
 python-dateutil==2.5.3
 python-mimeparse==1.5.2
 python3-memcached==1.51
-requests==2.10.0
+requests==2.20.0
 six==1.9.0
 urllib3==1.15.1
 selenium==2.48.0