diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index ae5af0dff..b0920703e 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ MarkupSafe==1.0
 Pygments==2.2.0
 pytz==2017.2
 PyYAML==3.12
-requests==2.18.3
+requests>=2.20.0
 six==1.10.0
 snowballstemmer==1.2.1
 Sphinx==1.6.3