diff --git a/requirements/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
index b2c3a1a..f7a705e 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pygments>=2.15.0 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerabilit
 pytest>=4.3.0
 pytest-cov>=2.6.1
 requests>=2.32.0 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability
-setuptools>=65.5.1 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability
+setuptools>=70.0.0 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability
 tox
 twine>=1.13.0
 wheel>=0.38.0