diff --git a/requirements/edx/base.txt b/requirements/edx/base.txt
index 8a5fe6633d..659867a2f3 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/base.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ nltk==2.0.4
 paramiko==1.9.0
 path.py==3.0.1
 Pillow==1.7.8
-pip>=1.3
+pip>=1.4
 polib==1.0.3
 pycrypto>=2.6
 pygments==1.5