diff --git a/requests/utils.py b/requests/utils.py
index db67938e67..6705c9a300 100644
--- a/requests/utils.py
+++ b/requests/utils.py
@@ -256,13 +256,28 @@ def extract_zipped_paths(path):
 
     # we have a valid zip archive and a valid member of that archive
     tmp = tempfile.gettempdir()
-    extracted_path = os.path.join(tmp, *member.split('/'))
+    extracted_path = os.path.join(tmp, member.split('/')[-1])
     if not os.path.exists(extracted_path):
-        extracted_path = zip_file.extract(member, path=tmp)
-
+        # use read + write to avoid the creating nested folders, we only want the file, avoids mkdir racing condition
+        with atomic_open(extracted_path) as file_handler:
+            file_handler.write(zip_file.read(member))
     return extracted_path
 
 
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def atomic_open(filename):
+    """Write a file to the disk in an atomic fashion"""
+    replacer = os.rename if sys.version_info[0] == 2 else os.replace
+    tmp_descriptor, tmp_name = tempfile.mkstemp(dir=os.path.dirname(filename))
+    try:
+        with os.fdopen(tmp_descriptor, 'wb') as tmp_handler:
+            yield tmp_handler
+        replacer(tmp_name, filename)
+    except BaseException:
+        os.remove(tmp_name)
+        raise
+
+
 def from_key_val_list(value):
     """Take an object and test to see if it can be represented as a
     dictionary. Unless it can not be represented as such, return an