diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ea6b04109..69e7f0723 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
     "readability-lxml==0.8.1",
     "redis==3.5.3",
     "rednose==1.3.0",
-    "requests==2.26.0",
+    "requests==2.31.0",
     "requests-kerberos==0.12.0",
     "requests-oauthlib==1.1.0",
     "rfc3986==1.5.0",