diff --git a/examples/research_projects/visual_bert/requirements.txt b/examples/research_projects/visual_bert/requirements.txt
index 0d483b6d1892..8b2d89edbc4e 100644
--- a/examples/research_projects/visual_bert/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/research_projects/visual_bert/requirements.txt
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ pyzmq==19.0.2
 qtconsole==4.7.7
 QtPy==1.9.0
 regex==2020.7.14
-requests==2.22.0
+requests==2.31.0
 retrying==1.3.3
 sacremoses==0.0.43
 Send2Trash==1.5.0