diff --git a/ibm-recommender/requirements.txt b/ibm-recommender/requirements.txt
index 591d78f..76963aa 100644
--- a/ibm-recommender/requirements.txt
+++ b/ibm-recommender/requirements.txt
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ terminado==0.8.1
 testpath==0.3.1
 tornado==5.0.2
 traitlets==4.3.2
-urllib3==1.22
+urllib3==1.26.5
 wcwidth==0.1.7
 webencodings==0.5.1
 Werkzeug==0.14.1