diff --git a/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py b/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py
index f8691a37cfd..64f8aea76aa 100644
--- a/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py
+++ b/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
     'msal-extensions~=0.1.3',
     'msrestazure>=0.6.3',
     'paramiko>=2.0.8,<3.0.0',
-    'PyJWT',
+    'PyJWT==1.7.1',
     'pyopenssl>=17.1.0',  # https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/pull/612
     'requests~=2.22',
     'six~=1.12',