diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9f6e307..eb0098f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -31,3 +31,4 @@ retinaface-py
 sentencepiece
 termcolor
 transformers==4.48.0
+setuptools>=78.1.1 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability