diff --git a/plasma_framework/python_tests/requirements.txt b/plasma_framework/python_tests/requirements.txt
index 8e6039d73..fd6f076fb 100644
--- a/plasma_framework/python_tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/plasma_framework/python_tests/requirements.txt
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ pytest-cache==1.0
 pytest-forked==1.1.1
 pytest-xdist==1.30.0
 pytest-xprocess==0.12.1
-requests==2.22.0
+requests==2.31.0
 rlp==1.1.0
 semantic-version==2.8.2
 six==1.12.0