diff --git a/ai/generative-ai-service/hr-goal-alignment/files/requirements.txt b/ai/generative-ai-service/hr-goal-alignment/files/requirements.txt
index 41174ad2f..4621dccc3 100644
--- a/ai/generative-ai-service/hr-goal-alignment/files/requirements.txt
+++ b/ai/generative-ai-service/hr-goal-alignment/files/requirements.txt
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ regex==2024.11.6
 requests==2.32.3
 requests-toolbelt==1.0.0
 rpds-py==0.24.0
-setuptools==65.5.0
+setuptools==78.1.1
 six==1.17.0
 smmap==5.0.2
 sniffio==1.3.1