diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c8fb3ea86a..9937ec9c3b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ xmltodict==0.12
 pytz
 praw>=4.0.0,<6.0.0
 geoip2>=4.0,<5.0
-requests>=2.0.0,<3.0.0
+requests>=2.24.0,<3.0.0
 dnspython<3.0
 sqlalchemy>=1.4,<1.5