diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8ff2788d..7ed0962a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.i18n>=2.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=3.18.0 # Apache-2.0
 python-openstackclient>=3.3.0 # 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