diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f840c6ecd..42f03432f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ oslo.i18n>=2.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=3.18.0 # Apache-2.0
 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