diff --git a/transformers/examples/research_projects/lxmert/requirements.txt b/transformers/examples/research_projects/lxmert/requirements.txt
index f65783d59..3c0841c63 100644
--- a/transformers/examples/research_projects/lxmert/requirements.txt
+++ b/transformers/examples/research_projects/lxmert/requirements.txt
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ pyzmq==19.0.2
 qtconsole==4.7.7
 QtPy==1.9.0
 regex==2020.7.14
-requests==2.22.0
+requests==2.31.0
 retrying==1.3.3
 sacremoses==0.0.43
 Send2Trash==1.5.0