diff --git a/requirements-nover.txt b/requirements-nover.txt
index 146e4088a..487a8edd4 100644
--- a/requirements-nover.txt
+++ b/requirements-nover.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Flask-Login
 Flask-Mail
 python-dateutil
 boto
-pymysql
+pymysql==0.6.7  # Remove version when baseimage has Python 2.7.9+
 stripe
 gunicorn<19.0
 gevent
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1b35d3043..c2d5b216d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ PyGithub==1.25.2
 pygpgme==0.3
 pyjwkest==1.1.0
 PyJWT==1.4.0
-PyMySQL==0.7.1
+PyMySQL==0.6.7
 pyOpenSSL==0.15.1
 PyPDF2==1.25.1
 python-dateutil==2.4.2