diff --git a/tests/setup.py b/tests/setup.py
index a0de1d4c6ab1a..9b259f7d49b7f 100644
--- a/tests/setup.py
+++ b/tests/setup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
       license="apache2.0",
       packages=find_packages(),
       include_package_data=True,
-      install_requires=["ducktape==0.7.5", "requests==2.20.0"],
+      install_requires=["ducktape==0.7.5", "requests==2.31.0"],
       tests_require=["pytest", "mock"],
       cmdclass={'test': PyTest},
       )