diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 995260d1..47e78146 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pbr>=1.8 # Apache-2.0
 Babel>=2.3.4 # BSD
 PrettyTable<0.8,>=0.7.1 # BSD
 keystoneauth1>=2.14.0 # Apache-2.0
-requests>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
+requests!=2.12.2,>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 warlock!=1.3.0,<2,>=1.0.1 # Apache-2.0
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
 oslo.utils>=3.18.0 # Apache-2.0