diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock b/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
index 7e07ca35f..da93c1727 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
@@ -1937,6 +1937,7 @@ files = [
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+    {file = "psycopg2-2.9.10-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:91fd603a2155da8d0cfcdbf8ab24a2d54bca72795b90d2a3ed2b6da8d979dee2"},
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@@ -2837,19 +2838,23 @@ tornado = ["tornado (>=6)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "setuptools"
-version = "72.1.0"
+version = "75.7.0"
 description = "Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.8"
+python-versions = ">=3.9"
 files = [
-    {file = "setuptools-72.1.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:5a03e1860cf56bb6ef48ce186b0e557fdba433237481a9a625176c2831be15d1"},
-    {file = "setuptools-72.1.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8d243eff56d095e5817f796ede6ae32941278f542e0f941867cc05ae52b162ec"},
+    {file = "setuptools-75.7.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:84fb203f278ebcf5cd08f97d3fb96d3fbed4b629d500b29ad60d11e00769b183"},
+    {file = "setuptools-75.7.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:886ff7b16cd342f1d1defc16fc98c9ce3fde69e087a4e1983d7ab634e5f41f4f"},
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 [package.extras]
-core = ["importlib-metadata (>=6)", "importlib-resources (>=5.10.2)", "jaraco.text (>=3.7)", "more-itertools (>=8.8)", "ordered-set (>=3.1.1)", "packaging (>=24)", "platformdirs (>=2.6.2)", "tomli (>=2.0.1)", "wheel (>=0.43.0)"]
-doc = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9.3)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "pygments-github-lexers (==0.0.5)", "pyproject-hooks (!=1.1)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx (>=3.5)", "sphinx-favicon", "sphinx-inline-tabs", "sphinx-lint", "sphinx-notfound-page (>=1,<2)", "sphinx-reredirects", "sphinxcontrib-towncrier"]
-test = ["build[virtualenv] (>=1.0.3)", "filelock (>=3.4.0)", "importlib-metadata", "ini2toml[lite] (>=0.14)", "jaraco.develop (>=7.21)", "jaraco.envs (>=2.2)", "jaraco.path (>=3.2.0)", "jaraco.test", "mypy (==1.11.*)", "packaging (>=23.2)", "pip (>=19.1)", "pyproject-hooks (!=1.1)", "pytest (>=6,!=8.1.*)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=2.2)", "pytest-home (>=0.5)", "pytest-mypy", "pytest-perf", "pytest-ruff (<0.4)", "pytest-ruff (>=0.2.1)", "pytest-ruff (>=0.3.2)", "pytest-subprocess", "pytest-timeout", "pytest-xdist (>=3)", "tomli", "tomli-w (>=1.0.0)", "virtualenv (>=13.0.0)", "wheel"]
+check = ["pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-ruff (>=0.2.1)", "ruff (>=0.8.0)"]
+core = ["importlib_metadata (>=6)", "jaraco.collections", "jaraco.functools (>=4)", "jaraco.text (>=3.7)", "more_itertools", "more_itertools (>=8.8)", "packaging", "packaging (>=24.2)", "platformdirs (>=4.2.2)", "tomli (>=2.0.1)", "wheel (>=0.43.0)"]
+cover = ["pytest-cov"]
+doc = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9.3)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "pygments-github-lexers (==0.0.5)", "pyproject-hooks (!=1.1)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx (>=3.5)", "sphinx-favicon", "sphinx-inline-tabs", "sphinx-lint", "sphinx-notfound-page (>=1,<2)", "sphinx-reredirects", "sphinxcontrib-towncrier", "towncrier (<24.7)"]
+enabler = ["pytest-enabler (>=2.2)"]
+test = ["build[virtualenv] (>=1.0.3)", "filelock (>=3.4.0)", "ini2toml[lite] (>=0.14)", "jaraco.develop (>=7.21)", "jaraco.envs (>=2.2)", "jaraco.path (>=3.7.2)", "jaraco.test (>=5.5)", "packaging (>=24.2)", "pip (>=19.1)", "pyproject-hooks (!=1.1)", "pytest (>=6,!=8.1.*)", "pytest-home (>=0.5)", "pytest-perf", "pytest-subprocess", "pytest-timeout", "pytest-xdist (>=3)", "tomli-w (>=1.0.0)", "virtualenv (>=13.0.0)", "wheel (>=0.44.0)"]
+type = ["importlib_metadata (>=7.0.2)", "jaraco.develop (>=7.21)", "mypy (==1.14.*)", "pytest-mypy"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "shellingham"
@@ -3522,4 +3527,4 @@ tests-strict = ["pytest (==4.6.0)", "pytest (==6.2.5)", "pytest-cov (==3.0.0)"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.10,<3.13"
-content-hash = "79ac61ab5ead4b8042cd1a7ad12c54541d2de8fc23bfa41a76af123a009211f6"
+content-hash = "280bd9f458f44abc2c19af7f3ed426bd9eedc82c56f7584d4c6bc487820dc092"
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml b/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
index eef559aa3..c612cac20 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ spiffworkflow-connector-command = {git = "https://github.com/sartography/spiffwo
 # and to lower than 67 because i didn't feel like addressing
 # new deprecation warnings. we don't need this library explicitly,
 # but at one time it was pulled in by various libs we depend on.
-setuptools = "^72.1.0"
+setuptools = "^75.7.0"
 
 # we cannot upgrade werkzeug due to connexion. See comment in .snyk file
 werkzeug = "^2.3"