diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 780bdf4b3..a8c6a9d20 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ gunicorn==18.0
 boto==2.15.0
 cmd2==0.6.7
 docopt==0.6.1
-requests==2.2.1
+requests==2.12.0
 ua-parser==0.3.6
 user-agents==0.2.0
 sh==1.09