diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 35ed30e..a2cd695 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ simplejson==3.10
 SQLAlchemy==1.1.5
 unittest2==1.1
 zope.component==4.2.1
-configparser==3.5
+configparser==3.8.1
 mozsvc==0.9
 https://github.com/mozilla-services/tokenserver/archive/1.2.27.zip
 https://github.com/mozilla-services/server-syncstorage/archive/1.6.8.zip