diff --git a/ansible/roles/prereq/tasks/deploy.yml b/ansible/roles/prereq/tasks/deploy.yml
index afa8fcea2d1..1cb2ee13840 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/prereq/tasks/deploy.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/prereq/tasks/deploy.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 - name: install requests
   pip:
     name: requests
-    version: 2.10.0
+    version: 2.31.0
   become: true
 
 - name: install docker for python