diff --git a/requirements_flask_app.txt b/requirements_flask_app.txt
index 6daf56b1a..722ffcef9 100644
--- a/requirements_flask_app.txt
+++ b/requirements_flask_app.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ MarkupSafe==0.23
 Werkzeug==0.14.1
 isodate==0.5.1
 itsdangerous==0.24
-requests==2.7.0
+requests==2.20.0