diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 918400572..0bd0bb13b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ pecan!=1.0.2,!=1.0.3,!=1.0.4,!=1.2,>=1.0.0 # BSD
 Pint>=0.5 # BSD
 psutil<2.0.0,>=1.1.1 # BSD
 pyudev # LGPLv2.1+
-requests>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
+requests!=2.12.2,>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 rtslib-fb!=2.1.60,!=2.1.61,>=2.1.43 # Apache-2.0
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
 stevedore>=1.17.1 # Apache-2.0