diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 635e1f5f..a1b5fe72 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Babel>=1.3
 argparse
 PrettyTable<0.8,>=0.7
 python-keystoneclient!=1.8.0,>=1.6.0
-requests!=2.8.0,>=2.5.2
+requests>=2.8.1
 warlock<2,>=1.0.1
 six>=1.9.0
 oslo.utils>=2.8.0 # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index e2c31219..2cb3529a 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ testrepository>=0.0.18
 testtools>=1.4.0
 testscenarios>=0.4
 fixtures>=1.3.1
-requests-mock>=0.6.0 # Apache-2.0
+requests-mock>=0.7.0 # Apache-2.0
 tempest-lib>=0.10.0