diff --git a/requirements/common.txt b/requirements/common.txt
index 33c4c3219f159..36fc791cce064 100644
--- a/requirements/common.txt
+++ b/requirements/common.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ mistral_common[opencv] >= 1.5.4
 opencv-python-headless >= 4.11.0    # required for video IO
 pyyaml
 six>=1.16.0; python_version > '3.11' # transitive dependency of pandas that needs to be the latest version for python 3.12
-setuptools>=74.1.1; python_version > '3.11' # Setuptools is used by triton, we need to ensure a modern version is installed for 3.12+ so that it does not try to import distutils, which was removed in 3.12
+setuptools>=74.1.1,<80; python_version > '3.11' # Setuptools is used by triton, we need to ensure a modern version is installed for 3.12+ so that it does not try to import distutils, which was removed in 3.12
 einops # Required for Qwen2-VL.
 compressed-tensors == 0.9.3 # required for compressed-tensors
 depyf==0.18.0 # required for profiling and debugging with compilation config