diff --git a/containers/sidecar-requirements.in b/containers/sidecar-requirements.in
index 74d591c..48e6b04 100644
--- a/containers/sidecar-requirements.in
+++ b/containers/sidecar-requirements.in
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 barman[azure,cloud,google,snappy,zstandard,lz4]==3.13.1
-setuptools==77.0.1
+setuptools==78.1.0
 boto3==1.35.99
diff --git a/containers/sidecar-requirements.txt b/containers/sidecar-requirements.txt
index d55ecfa..24340e8 100644
--- a/containers/sidecar-requirements.txt
+++ b/containers/sidecar-requirements.txt
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ zstandard==0.23.0 \
     # via barman
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
-setuptools==77.0.1 \
-    --hash=sha256:81a234dff81a82bb52e522c8aef145d0dd4de1fd6de4d3b196d0f77dc2fded26 \
-    --hash=sha256:a1246a1b4178c66d7cf50c9fc6d530fac3f89bc284cf803c7fa878c41b1a03b2
+setuptools==78.1.0 \
+    --hash=sha256:18fd474d4a82a5f83dac888df697af65afa82dec7323d09c3e37d1f14288da54 \
+    --hash=sha256:3e386e96793c8702ae83d17b853fb93d3e09ef82ec62722e61da5cd22376dcd8
     # via -r sidecar-requirements.in