diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b0facda9..2e503ddb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ pydocstyle==6.1.1
 requests==2.28.1
 Sphinx==5.2.3
 Werkzeug==2.0.3
+setuptools>=65.5.1 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability