diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7abe156..f9b5fc6 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     "read-chunk": "^2.0.0",
     "request": "^2.79.0",
     "serve-favicon": "~2.3.2",
-    "sync-request": "~3.0.1",
+    "sync-request": "~5.0.0",
     "urllib": "~2.19.0",
     "xml2js": "~0.4.17"
   },