diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0bd9bd9cf1..cb17bd3cf3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ Homepage = "https://github.com/scikit-hep/pyhf"
 shellcomplete = ["click_completion"]
 # NOTE: macos x86 support is deprecated from tensorflow v2.17.0 onwards.
 tensorflow = [
-    "tensorflow >= 2.18",  # see https://github.com/tensorflow/probability/issues/1854
-    "tensorflow-probability[tf]>=0.24.0"  # c.f. PR #2452
+    # see https://github.com/tensorflow/probability/issues/1854
+    "tensorflow-probability[tf]>=0.24.0,!=0.25.0"  # c.f. PR #2452
 ]
 torch = ["torch>=1.10.0"]  # c.f. PR #1657
 jax = [