diff --git a/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py b/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py
index 68b37494502..06e1e02fe7e 100644
--- a/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py
+++ b/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     'PyJWT',
     'pyopenssl>=17.1.0',  # https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/pull/612
     'pyyaml~=3.13',
-    'requests',
+    'requests>=2.20.0',
     'six',
     'tabulate>=0.7.7,<=0.8.2',
     'wheel==0.30.0',