diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b109863..ff2fdc3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pickleshare==0.7.4
 prompt-toolkit==1.0.15
 ptyprocess==0.5.2
 Pygments==2.2.0
-requests==2.18.4
+requests==2.20.0
 simplegeneric==0.8.1
 six==1.10.0
 traitlets==4.3.2