diff --git a/requirements/default.txt b/requirements/default.txt
index 8ebd5c9c..88b28555 100644
--- a/requirements/default.txt
+++ b/requirements/default.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,6 @@ typing_extensions; python_version<"3.10"
 amqp>=5.1.1,<6.0.0
 vine
 backports.zoneinfo[tzdata]>=0.2.1; python_version < '3.9'
+# due to this bug https://github.com/docker/docker-py/issues/3256
+# we need to hard-code the version of requests
+requests<2.32.0
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 243c85d9..3f48d5b6 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ envlist =
     apicheck
     pydocstyle
 
-requires = tox-docker>=3.0
+requires =
+    tox-docker<=4.1
+    requests<2.32.0
 
 [gh-actions]
 python =