diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index de32ff977..517becb24 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ deps =
     {[testenv:misc]deps}
     git+https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid.git
     git+https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint.git
-    requests==2.9.1
+    requests==2.10.0
     ./scripts/dev/pylint_checkers
 commands =
     {envpython} scripts/link_pyqt.py --tox {envdir}