diff --git a/src/testing/fedhub_automation/takserver_config_files/base_takserver_config/pytak_config_files/load_test/requirements.txt b/src/testing/fedhub_automation/takserver_config_files/base_takserver_config/pytak_config_files/load_test/requirements.txt
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index fe707f433..7f894019e
--- a/src/testing/fedhub_automation/takserver_config_files/base_takserver_config/pytak_config_files/load_test/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/testing/fedhub_automation/takserver_config_files/base_takserver_config/pytak_config_files/load_test/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ lxml==4.9.2
 protobuf==3.11.3
 pyOpenSSL==23.1.1
 PyYAML==5.1
-requests==2.26
+requests==2.33.0
 urllib3==1.26
 websockets
 pyzmq==25.0.2