diff --git a/optional-kubernetes-engine/requirements-dev.txt b/optional-kubernetes-engine/requirements-dev.txt
index 3118b924..43ca77f8 100644
--- a/optional-kubernetes-engine/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/optional-kubernetes-engine/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ flaky==3.4.0
 pytest==4.0.1
 pytest-cov==2.6.0
 BeautifulSoup4==4.6.3
-requests==2.20.1
+requests==2.33.0
 retrying==1.3.3
diff --git a/optional-kubernetes-engine/requirements.txt b/optional-kubernetes-engine/requirements.txt
index 33ba8279..045d9d22 100644
--- a/optional-kubernetes-engine/requirements.txt
+++ b/optional-kubernetes-engine/requirements.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ PyMySQL==0.9.2
 Flask-PyMongo==2.3.0
 PyMongo==3.7.2
 six==1.11.0
-requests[security]==2.21.0
+requests[security]==2.33.0
 honcho==1.0.1
 psq==0.7.0