diff --git a/bazel/rules_sphinx/requirements.txt b/bazel/rules_sphinx/requirements.txt
index 3cc9fe9..8e14631 100644
--- a/bazel/rules_sphinx/requirements.txt
+++ b/bazel/rules_sphinx/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Sphinx==2.0.1
 sphinx-rtd-theme==0.4.3
 
 # Required on minimal environments
-setuptools==45.1.0
+setuptools==65.5.1
 
 # Sphinx version compatible with docutils 0.16 is unreleased at the time of writing
 # See https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/commit/faedcc48ccb942b9a7b758b699b30f0d026c0771