diff --git a/ringcontroller/requirements.txt b/ringcontroller/requirements.txt
index c76336ff3..f4aae84e2 100644
--- a/ringcontroller/requirements.txt
+++ b/ringcontroller/requirements.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ PyYAML==5.3.1
 requests-oauthlib==1.3.0
 requests==2.24.0
 rsa==4.6
-setuptools==39.2.0
+setuptools==65.5.1
 six==1.15.0
 swift==2.25.0
 urllib3==1.25.9