diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fdb5d7c6f..c7ff43c06 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     "pandas>=2.0.0",
     "scikit-learn>=0.23.2",
     "scikit-image>=0.19.1",
-    "setuptools",
+    "setuptools==78.0.2",
     "seaborn",
     "pyyaml==6.0.1",
     "matplotlib",