diff --git a/conda-store-server/pyproject.toml b/conda-store-server/pyproject.toml
index 5b557c299..6ba262971 100644
--- a/conda-store-server/pyproject.toml
+++ b/conda-store-server/pyproject.toml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "requests",
   "pydantic >=2.0",
   "python-multipart",
-  "setuptools",
+  "setuptools<70",
   "sqlalchemy>=2.0,<2.1",
   "traitlets",
   "uvicorn",