diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 49eb5113c8..97f47bffae 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ coverage>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
 fixtures>=3.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 mock>=2.0 # BSD
 sphinx!=1.3b1,<1.4,>=1.2.1 # BSD
-requests>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
+requests!=2.12.2,>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 testrepository>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 testresources>=0.2.4 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 testscenarios>=0.4 # Apache-2.0/BSD