diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4802b98937c870ea040cf70baa481c42530e813e..00d891fb38e7c6ed51e8682f6a836651f3fc079b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Pillow>=3.4.1
 protobuf==3.5.2.post1
 python-crfsuite==0.9.5
 Pyqtree==0.24
-requests==2.18.4
+requests==2.20.0
 sciencebeam-alignment==0.0.2
 sciencebeam-utils==0.0.1
 sklearn-crfsuite==0.3.6