diff --git a/gen3-augur/requirements.txt b/gen3-augur/requirements.txt
index eaac73810..160ae4443 100644
--- a/gen3-augur/requirements.txt
+++ b/gen3-augur/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 biopython~=1.77
 pandas~=1.0.0
-setuptools~=46.0
+setuptools~=78.1.1
 requests~=2.22