diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3522d3feac..6b85083aac 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ ntplib==0.3.3
 pyyaml==3.11
 # note: requests is also used in many checks
 # upgrade with caution
-requests==2.6.0
+requests==2.31.0
 # note: simplejson is used in many checks to inteface APIs
 simplejson==3.6.5
 supervisor==3.1.3