diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 75c1148..15701af 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ psycopg2==2.7.1
 ptyprocess==0.5.1
 python-openid==2.2.5
 raven==5.32.0
-requests==2.12.4
+requests==2.18.3
 requests-oauthlib==0.7.0
 simplegeneric==0.8.1
 six==1.10.0