diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 312ad2490..e64027894 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ oslo.i18n>=2.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=3.18.0 # Apache-2.0
 PrettyTable<0.8,>=0.7.1 # BSD
-requests>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
+requests!=2.12.2,>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 simplejson>=2.2.0 # MIT
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
 Babel>=2.3.4 # BSD