diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ba67b08a4..79bd808f8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ jupyter-repo2docker==2024.3.0
 myst-parser
 chardet
 # requests==2.31.0
-requests==2.32.3
-urllib3==2.2.2
+requests<2.29.0
+urllib3<2.0