diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e57cd84308..e695c3a212 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ pytz==2014.10
 repoze.lru==0.6
 requests==2.7.0
 schematics==1.1.0
-setuptools==7.0
+setuptools==65.5.1
 sh==1.11
 simplejson==3.6.5
 six==1.9.0