diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5f8b1ca10..77c45a0b4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pylint==1.5.4
 pyOpenSSL==16.2.0
 pyyaml==3.11
 requests==2.9.1
-setuptools==30.4.0
+setuptools==65.5.1
 six==1.10.0
 tabulate==0.7.5
 vcrpy==1.10.3