diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 30ff75ab4..e271e7a66 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -81,4 +81,4 @@ raven==6.1.0
 
 # for formatting tables
 django-tables2
-requests
+requests==2.18.4