diff --git a/etc/load-testing/requirements.txt b/etc/load-testing/requirements.txt
index 5b1fa01..704b6e4 100644
--- a/etc/load-testing/requirements.txt
+++ b/etc/load-testing/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Jinja2==2.9.6
 MarkupSafe==1.0
 msgpack-python==0.4.8
 pyzmq==15.2.0
-requests==2.18.1
+requests==2.20.0
 six==1.10.0
 urllib3==1.21.1
 Werkzeug==0.12.2