diff --git a/blackduck/jenkins/check-licences/requirements.txt b/blackduck/jenkins/check-licences/requirements.txt
index 84d85c33..c8f0fc59 100644
--- a/blackduck/jenkins/check-licences/requirements.txt
+++ b/blackduck/jenkins/check-licences/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-requests==2.20.0
+requests==2.31.0
 python-dateutil>=2.8.0
 blackduck
 mdutils==1.4.0