diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 644e260..a75b066 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ opentracing==1.2.2
 basictracer==2.2.1
 aioredis==1.0.0
 asynqp==0.5.1
-requests==2.11.1
+requests==2.20.0
 pyyaml==5.1
 kazoo==2.4.0
 py-zipkin<1.0.0,>=0.18.1