diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-setuptools/0001-Limit-the-amount-of-whitespace-to-search-backtrack.-.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-setuptools/0001-Limit-the-amount-of-whitespace-to-search-backtrack.-.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..20a13da7bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-setuptools/0001-Limit-the-amount-of-whitespace-to-search-backtrack.-.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From 9e9f617a83f6593b476669030b0347d48e831c3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Narpat Mali <narpat.mali@windriver.com>
+Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 14:45:05 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Limit the amount of whitespace to search/backtrack. Fixes
+ #3659.
+
+CVE: CVE-2022-40897
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/43a9c9bfa6aa626ec2a22540bea28d2ca77964be]
+
+Signed-off-by: Narpat Mali <narpat.mali@windriver.com>
+---
+ setuptools/package_index.py | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/setuptools/package_index.py b/setuptools/package_index.py
+index 270e7f3..e93fcc6 100644
+--- a/setuptools/package_index.py
++++ b/setuptools/package_index.py
+@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ def unique_values(func):
+     return wrapper
+ 
+ 
+-REL = re.compile(r"""<([^>]*\srel\s*=\s*['"]?([^'">]+)[^>]*)>""", re.I)
++REL = re.compile(r"""<([^>]*\srel\s{0,10}=\s{0,10}['"]?([^'" >]+)[^>]*)>""", re.I)
+ # this line is here to fix emacs' cruddy broken syntax highlighting
+ 
+ 
+-- 
+2.34.1
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-setuptools_65.0.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-setuptools_65.0.2.bb
index 1a639ea333..d7cbb99c9d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-setuptools_65.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-setuptools_65.0.2.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ inherit pypi python_setuptools_build_meta
 SRC_URI:append:class-native = " file://0001-conditionally-do-not-fetch-code-by-easy_install.patch"
 
 SRC_URI += "file://0001-change-shebang-to-python3.patch \
-            file://0001-_distutils-sysconfig.py-make-it-possible-to-substite.patch"
+            file://0001-_distutils-sysconfig.py-make-it-possible-to-substite.patch \
+            file://0001-Limit-the-amount-of-whitespace-to-search-backtrack.-.patch \
+"
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "101bf15ca723beef42c8db91a761f3748d4d697e17fae904db60c0b619d8d094"