diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 68ebf6c0..714a9481 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ pbr>=0.6,!=0.7,<1.0
 netaddr>=0.7.6
 oslo.i18n>=0.1.0  # Apache-2.0
 python-keystoneclient>=0.10.0
-requests>=1.1
+requests>=1.2.1
 six>=1.7.0
 PrettyTable>=0.7,<0.8
 argparse