diff --git a/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py b/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py
index c72337d9146..33c898677c2 100644
--- a/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py
+++ b/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     'pkginfo>=1.5.0.1',
     'PyJWT==1.7.1',
     'pyopenssl>=17.1.0',  # https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/pull/612
-    'requests~=2.22',
+    'requests~=2.25.1',
     'six~=1.12',
     'urllib3[secure]>=1.26.5',
 ]