diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 506911691..9f6359b63 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ requests!=2.12.2,!=2.13.0,>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 requests-file
 sh
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
+setuptools!=50.0.0
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 7dacdbe0d..1cd386be1 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ sphinx>=1.5.1,<2.0.0 # BSD
 sphinxcontrib-httpdomain # BSD
 stestr>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 testtools>=1.4.0 # MIT
+setuptools!=50.0.0