diff --git a/python-rag-chatbot/requirements.txt b/python-rag-chatbot/requirements.txt
index 7ea5d6c..566002d 100644
--- a/python-rag-chatbot/requirements.txt
+++ b/python-rag-chatbot/requirements.txt
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ section==2.0
 Send2Trash==1.8.2
 sentence-transformers==2.2.2
 sentencepiece==0.2.0
-setuptools==70.0.0
+setuptools==78.1.1
 shellingham==1.5.4
 six==1.16.0
 smmap==5.0.1