diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5a74c9bb..3dd75668 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ setuptools==21.0
 traitlets>=4.1
 tornado==5.1.1
 # Fix to 2.11.1 due to docker-py needs
-requests==2.11.1
+requests==2.20.0
 docker==2.2
 escapism==0.0.1
 jupyterhub==0.9.6