diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ci/xfails/requirements.txt b/drivers/gpu/drm/ci/xfails/requirements.txt
index e475ad74b9fb..1ca105efebb9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ci/xfails/requirements.txt
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ci/xfails/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ requests==2.32.2
 requests-toolbelt==1.0.0
 ruamel.yaml==0.17.32
 ruamel.yaml.clib==0.2.7
-setuptools==70.0.0
+setuptools==78.1.1
 tenacity==8.2.3
 urllib3==2.2.2
 wheel==0.41.1