diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index cd7d4be0..3726ed8e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ pyusb==1.0.0b1
 pyxattr==0.5.1
 PyYAML==3.10
 qrcode==5.0.1
-requests==2.6.0
+requests==2.20.0
 rhnlib==2.5.65
 sanlock-python==3.6.0
 schedutils==0.4