diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2a337c5d4..2c5a3fdfd 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -55,3 +55,4 @@ zipp==0.6.0
 requests==2.23.0
 toml==0.10.2
 PyYAML==5.3.1
+setuptools>=70.0.0 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability