diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 34b692acdf..16b8233fa5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ PyYAML==6.0
 requests==2.27.1; python_version == '3.6'
 requests==2.28.1; python_version >= '3.7'
 semver==2.13.0
-setuptools==59.6.0; python_version == '3.6'
+setuptools==67.4.0; python_version == '3.6'
 setuptools==67.4.0; python_version >= '3.7'
 wcwidth==0.2.6
 #+pygelf%pygelf==0.4.0