diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5c1b004..b92181b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # dependencies for Valohai inference deployment
 pillow>=6.2.0
-requests==2.21.0
+requests==2.31.0
 scikit-image==0.14.2
 werkzeug>=0.15.3