diff --git a/mtsw2e-requirements.txt b/mtsw2e-requirements.txt
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index 7c364d5..2f121af
--- a/mtsw2e-requirements.txt
+++ b/mtsw2e-requirements.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ python-gflags==2.0
 python-linkedin
 pyzmq==13.0.0
 readline==6.2.4.1
-requests==1.2.3
+requests==2.20.0
 requests-oauthlib==0.3.2
 tornado==2.4.1
 twitter==1.12.1