diff --git a/usr/lib/linuxmuster-webui/etc/requirements.txt b/usr/lib/linuxmuster-webui/etc/requirements.txt
index 0f1a39f88..38d82df17 100644
--- a/usr/lib/linuxmuster-webui/etc/requirements.txt
+++ b/usr/lib/linuxmuster-webui/etc/requirements.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ pytz
 requests
 reconfigure
 scrypt
-setuptools==58.2.0
+setuptools==70.0.0
 simplejson>=3.16.0
 smbprotocol==1.14.0
 unicodecsv==0.14.1