diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 95cb5e6587bc5568063322485fbfdc5990c29c0a..ad9276d5d3ea2e61f6893734791241a2e272eb23 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ setup(
         'celery',
         'junos-eznc',
         'ncclient',
-        'lxml',
+        'lxml==4.9.4',
         'requests',
         'netifaces',
         'tree-format',