diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 83eb28d..dedfb0a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SQLAlchemy==1.3.5
 Flask==1.0
 psycopg2==2.7.3.2
 PyYAML==5.4
-requests==2.20.0
+requests==2.31.0
 Jinja2==2.11.3
 twobitreader==3.1.4
 biopython==1.66