diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e00b90eac..a5b69f25d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ Jinja2==2.10.3
 python-crontab==2.4.0
 requests==2.22.0
 semantic-version==2.8.2
-setuptools==40.8.0
+setuptools==50.0.3
 six==1.12.0
 virtualenv==16.6.0