diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ed176e6655..181987fd4d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pytest-rerunfailures==10.2
 PyYAML==6.0
 requests==2.27.1
 semver==2.13.0
-setuptools==59.6.0
+setuptools==67.4.0
 wcwidth==0.2.5
 # rfmdocend: required-packages
 #+pygelf%pygelf==0.4.0