diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5ad12d1..d91784a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ PyYAML==5.4.1
 requests==2.25.1
 urllib3==1.26.18
 Werkzeug==1.0.1
-setuptools>=65.5.1 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability
+setuptools>=70.0.0 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability