diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4b9606fd..d62a4568 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
 pbr>=1.8 # Apache-2.0
 iso8601>=0.1.11 # MIT
 positional>=1.1.1 # Apache-2.0
-requests>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
+requests!=2.12.2,>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
 stevedore>=1.17.1 # Apache-2.0