diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d9a08f4c..5d5b7c8e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ scikit-image==0.24.0
 scikit-learn==1.5.0
 scipy==1.13.1
 scs==3.2.4.post2
-setuptools==70.1.0
+setuptools==78.1.1
 setuptools-scm==8.1.0
 six==1.16.0
 statsmodels==0.14.2